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# עֻזָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5798

**Uzza** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Uzza [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5798/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֻזָּא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5798/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Οζα, Αζα: driver of the ark 2 S 6:3 = עֻזָּה v 6, 7, 8 = עֻזָּא 1 Ch 13:7, 9, 10, 11. in גַּן־עֻזָּא burial-place of Manasseh and Amon 2 K 21:18, 26 (ע׳ perhaps = עֻזִּיָּה, cf. StaG i. 569, ii. 679 Kit). Benjamite name 1 Ch 8:7. head of family of returned exiles Ezr 2:49 = Ne 7:51.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Uzzah (7); of Uzzah (4).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.49/#tree)

בְּנֵי־עֻזָּ֥א בְנֵי־פָסֵ֖חַ בְּנֵ֥י בֵסָֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Uzzah the.descendants of.Paseah the.descendants of.Besai

*JPS 1917:* the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai;

[Nehemiah 7:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.51/#tree)

בְּנֵי־גַזָּ֥ם בְּנֵי־עֻזָּ֖א בְּנֵ֥י פָסֵֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Gazzam the.descendants of.Uzzah the.descendants of.Paseah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5798.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5798/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).