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Strong's #5798: `Uzza' (pronounced ooz-zaw')

or (Uzzah {ooz-zaw'}; feminine of 5797; strength; Uzza or Uzzah, the name of five Israelites:--Uzza, Uzzah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ

‛ûzzâ' / ‛ûzzâh

Uzza or Uzzah = "strength"

1) a man slain by Jehovah for touching the sacred ark (noun proper masculine)

2) a Benjamite of the sons of Ehud (noun proper masculine)

3) ancestor of a family of temple slaves who returned from exile with (noun proper masculine)

4) a Merarite Levite (noun proper masculine)

5) the garden where kings Manasseh and Amon of Judah were buried (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition



Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

2 Samuel 6:3: "it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab,"
2 Samuel 6:6: "to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God,"
2 Samuel 6:7: "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for"
2 Samuel 6:8: "because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place"
2 Kings 21:18: "in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 21:26: "And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead."
1 Chronicles 6:29: "his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,"
1 Chronicles 8:7: "removed them, and begot Uzza, and Ahihud."
1 Chronicles 13:7: "cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart."
1 Chronicles 13:9: "unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold"
1 Chronicles 13:10: "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because"
1 Chronicles 13:11: "the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza"
Ezra 2:49: "The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,"
Nehemiah 7:51: "The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,"









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