uzza Summary and Overview

strengh, a garden in which Manasseh and Amon were buried (2 Kings 21:18, 26). It was probably near the king's palace in Jerusalem, or may have formed part of the palace grounds. Manasseh may probably have acquired it from some one of this name.

(strength). 1. A Benjamite of the sons of Ehud. #1Ch 8:7| (B.C. 1445.) 2. Elsewhere called UZZAH. #1Ch 13:7,9,10,11| [UZZAH] 3. The children of Uzza were a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. #Ezr 2:49; Ne 7:51| (B.C. before 536.) 4. Properly Uzzah. As the text now stands, Uzzah is a descendant of Merari, #1Ch 6:29| (14); but there appears to be a gap in the verse. Perhaps he is the same as Zina or Zizah the son of Shimei. #1Ch 23:10,11| for these names evidently denote the same person, and, in Hebrew character, are not unlike Uzzah.

UZ'ZA (strength). 1. An inhabitant of Jerusalem in whose garden Manasseh, king of Judah, and his son Amon were buried. 2 Kgs 21:18, 2 Kgs 21:26. The location of the garden is not known. 2. A Benjamite descending from Ehud, 1 Chr 8:7, and, according to the Targum on Esther, the ancestor of Mordecai. 3. The ancestor of the family of Nethinim which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Ezr 2:49; Neh 7:51. 4. A Levite of the family of Merari. 1 Chr 6:29.

UZ, or more correctly Huz (Genesis 22:21). A country and a people near the Sabeans and the Chaldees (Job 1:1; Job 1:15; Job 1:17); accessible to the Temanites, the Shuhites (Job 2:11), and the Buzites (Job 32:2). The Edomites once possessed it (Jeremiah 25:20; Lamentations 4:21). Suited for sheep, oxen, asses, and camels (Job 1:3). From an inscription of Esarhaddon it appears there were in central Arabia, beyond the jebel Shomer, about the modern countries of upper and lower Kaseem, two regions, Bazu and Khazu, answering to Buz and Huz. Uz therefore was in the middle of northern Arabia, not far from the famous district of the Nejd. Ptolemy mentions the Aesitae (related to "Uz") as in the northern part of Arabia Deserta, near Babylon and the Euphrates. The name occurs (1) in Genesis 10:23 as son of Aram and grandson (as "son" means in 1 Chronicles 1:17) of Shem; (2) as son of Nahor by Milcah (Genesis 22:21); (3) as son of Dishan and grandson of Seir (Genesis 36:28). Evidently the more ancient and northerly members of the Aramaic family coalesced with some of the later Abrahamids holding a central position in Mesopotamia, and subsequently with those still later, the Edomites of the S.