עֻזָּא
Uzza
BDB lists 6 entries for ‘Uzza’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5798 appears in the Book of 2 Kings — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Uzza” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name עזא (ʻUzzâʼ). Its earliest occurrence is 2 Samuel 6:3. It turns up in 14 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in 1 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 43% of its uses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5798 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 6 verses 43%
- 2 Samuel 4 verses 29%
- 2 Kings 2 verses 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 57%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 43%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Uzza 9×, Uzzah 3×
- American Standard Version†: Uzza 7×, Uzzah 4×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Uzza 5×, Uzzah 5×, Against uzzah 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Uzzah 6×, Against uzzah 4×, Uzza 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5798 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5798 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5798 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5798 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עזא I
- 1. driver of the ark 2 S 6:3 = עֻזָּה v 6, 7, 8 = עֻזָּא 1 Ch 13:7, 9, 10, 11. e.g. 2 Samuel 6:3
- 2. in גַּן־עֻזָּא burial-place of Manasseh and Amon 2 K 21:18, 26 (ע׳ perhaps = עֻזִּיָּה, cf. StaG i. 569, ii. 679 Kit). e.g. 2 Kings 21:18
- 3. Benjamite name 1 Ch 8:7. e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:7
- 4. head of family of returned exiles Ezr 2:49 = Ne 7:51. e.g. Ezra 2:49
עזא II
- 1. Levite name 1 Ch 6:14, Οζ(ι)α, Αζα. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:14
- 2. v. עֻזָּא.
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. Οζα, Αζα:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עז (ʻôz) (H5797) — strength.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עִוּזָּא I
- (cmp. preced.) name of a bird of prey, prob. sea-eagle. Targ. Y. Lev. XI, 13; Targ. Y. I Deut. XIV, 12 (h. text פרס).—V. עוּזְיָא, a. עַר.
עֵז ²
- ch., v. עִיז
עֻזָּא
- , v. עוּזָּא
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H5798 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/עֻזָּ֣א | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:7 | 2 |
| עֻזָּ֑א | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 21:18 | 2 |
| עֻזָּ֖א | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 8:7 | 2 |
| עֻזָּ֜א | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:9 | 2 |
| בְּ/עֻזָּ֑א | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:11 | 1 |
| בְּ/עֻזָּ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 6:8 | 1 |
| בְּ/עֻזָּ֔א | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:10 | 1 |
| בְּ/עֻזָּ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 6:7 | 1 |
| עֻזָּ֥א | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:49 | 1 |
| עֻזָּ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:29 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5798, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Uzza). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
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.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(strength).
+ A Benjamite of the sons of Ehud. (1 Chronicles 8:7) (B.C. 1445.) + Elsewhere called Uzza, Or Uzzah. (1 Chronicles 13:7,9,10,11) [Uzza, Or Uzzah] + The children of Uzza were a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:49; Nehemiah 7:51) (B.C. before 536.) + Properly Uzzah. As the text now stands, Uzzah is a descendant of Merari, (1 Chronicles 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. (1 Chronicles 23:10,11) for these names evidently denote the same person, and, in Hebrew character, are not unlike Uzzah.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
