BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H941
bu.zi — Buzi
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezk.1.3; father of: Ezekiel (H3168H) § Buzi = "my contempt" father of Ezekiel (or ancestor)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H940
bu.zi — Buzite
Someone descended from Ram (H7410I), first mentioned at Job.32.2 § Buzite = "contempt" one of the ancestors of Elihu
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3168
ye.chez.qel — Jehezkel
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.24.16 § Ezekiel or Jehezekel = "God strengthens" 1) son of Buzi and a priest and prophet; author of the book by his name; taken captive with Jehoiachin and exiled in Babylon where he prophesied for the next 22 years 2) a priest in charge of the 20th course in the time of David
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →The father of the prophet Ezekiel (1:3).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
