ʻUzzîy — H5813

Definition

masculine proper noun

Uzzi, the name of six Israelites

1. Uzzi = "strong"
2. a Levite, son of Bukki and father of Zerahiah in the line of the high priest although apparently never high priest himself
3. son of Tola and grandson of Issachar
4. a Benjamite, son of Bela and head of a family of Benjamin
5. son of Michri and father of Elah and an ancestor of a family of returned exiles settling in Jerusalem. Maybe same as 3
6. a Levite, son of Bani, and an overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
7. a priest, chief of the father's house of Jedaiah, in the time of Joiakim the high priest
8. one of the priests who helped Ezra in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. Maybe same as 6

Usually translated as

Uzzi

Origin

from H5810; forceful

• Derived from ʻâzaz (H5810)

Occurrences

ʻUzzîy occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (7), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (3)

• 1 Chronicles 6:5 — And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi (עֻזִּֽי),
• 1 Chronicles 6:6 — And Uzzi (וְעֻזִּי֙) begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,
• 1 Chronicles 6:51 — Bukki his son, Uzzi (עֻזִּ֥י) his son, Zerahiah his son,
• 1 Chronicles 7:2 — And the sons of Tola; Uzzi (עֻזִּ֡י), and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
• 1 Chronicles 7:3 — And the sons of Uzzi (עֻזִּ֖י); Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
• 1 Chronicles 7:7 — And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi (וְעֻזִּ֡י), and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
• 1 Chronicles 9:8 — And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi (עֻזִּ֖י), the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
• Ezra 7:4 — The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi (עֻזִּ֖י), the son of Bukki,
• Nehemiah 11:22 — The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi (עֻזִּ֤י) the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.
• Nehemiah 12:19 — And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi (עֻזִּֽי);
• Nehemiah 12:42 — And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi (וְעֻזִּ֛י), and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.