D. S. Margoliouth.
DZZA (my). — 1. The eponym of a Benjamite family, 1 Ch S' (B Xoara, A 'Afd, Luc. 'Afdi/). 2. Tlie head of a family of Nethinim that returned, Ezr 2'''' (B 06(Ti, A 'Afd, Luc. oni.)=Neh 7" (B 'Ofd, A 'Ofi, Luc. 'Aj-d). 3. The driver of the cart on which the ark was removed from Kiriath-jearim, 2 S 83. «. 7. 8^ 1 (j(i 137. ». 10. u Uzza's sudden death at a place called, in commemoration of this untoward incident, Perez-uzzah (' breach of Uzzah'; cf. artt. Chidon and Nacon), led to the temporary aban- donment of David's project of transporting the ark to Jerusalem. Uzza's death was attributed by the popular mind to an^er on the part of Jahweh at liis having j)re8umed to handle the sacred emblem too familiarly. There are, however, points of obscurity in the narrative, and the text is in several instances quite uncertain. See Driver, Wellh., Budde, Lbhr, U. P. Smith, ad loc.
Tlie name appeara lu KJV, Uzza, In 2 S (C, 1 Ch l!t7- » 10- ", u njV, Uzzah, in 2S A*-' '. B has everywhere '0J«, which is rt-ud also hy A in the Chroa. pas.sa^e8 ; A has \n 2 Sam. ' A^^ic, once lCi3] 'ACa.
4. Manasseh and his son Anion were buried in the 'garden of Uzza' (kji;-i:), 2 K '2V'-^ (L.XX Ki/Toj 'Ofd), whidi was attached to the palacu of Man- asseh. The conjecture of Stade (G VI i. 501), ii. (379), that nji; hore=n;ti; (Uzziah), has found wide acceptance (but see footnote to next col.).
J. A. Selbie. UZZAH (nil').— 1. The name of aMerarite family, 1 Ch e^i"! (li "Ofd, A 'Afd, Luc. Ofid). 2. See Uzza, No. 3.
UZZEN-SHEERAH.— See Sheeraii.
UZZI (n ; 'Ojtc)().— 1. A descendant of Aaron, 1 Ch 0'- «• "'[Hell. 5»'- «• 6^], Ezr 7*. 2. The eponym of a family of Issachar, 1 Ch 1'^*. 3. The name of a Benjamite family, 1 Ch V 9". 1. A Levite, son of Bani, overseer of the Levites dwelling in Jerusalem, Nell 11*^. 5. The head of a priestly family, Neh 12"'- *".
UZZIA («,!;;, prob. same as n;t^, Uzziah ; B 'Of«d, A 'Ofid, Luc.''Ofios).— One of David's heroes, 1 Ch 11«.
UZZIAH ()n;)s; and n;)!; [on the name see next art.]). — 1. A king of Judah. See next article. 2. A Kohathite Levite, 1 Ch 6-^ i"""- »' (B Ufeid, A*' sup ras'Oj-i'a!). 3. 'The father of an ollicer of David, 1 Ch 27=* (B 'OfcioiJ, A 'O^wO). i. A priest who had married a foreign wife, Ezr 10^' (B 'Ofcid, A 'Ofid, Luc. 'Oj-Zos). 5. Name of a Judahite family after the Exile, Neh II'' (B 'Af«, N 'Afea^d, A 'Ofid, Luc. "Oi-ias). The LXX reads 'O'M^a. also in Neh 11° for n;;n Hazaiau of MT.
UZZIAH (AZARIAH).— The Heb. names varj' in form. We have jnii' (2 K 15=--^, Is 1' 6' 7', 2 Ch 26"'- 27^) and .T)i; (2'K 1513-*', Hos 1', Am 1', Zee 14'). The meaning is 'J" is my strength.' We have a Hob. parallel in SxM^and in tlie Plieen. Synty and itety. The alternative Heb. name i.tii;' occurs in 2 K 15«-«, while n.-)]y is found in 2 K 14-' 15'-' etc., and also 1 Ch 3'-. The meaning of the alterna- tive name is similar to that of 'n;)t|, viz. 'J" hath helped (me).'
In As.syr. the names Aiur-nirdri (*Ashur is my help') and Rainitnin-nirtiri (* Ramnuan is my help ') are parallel in thought and e.viiression to both the alternative proper names of the lleb. monarch, while the Phoon. furnishes a close analogy to the latter in '^yDliy * Baal is (my) help,' represented in Latin by Uaadrubal ; or, with the elements of the name reversed, in I'vhn (cf. also ^lyamiy, prob. ' my help is liaal ' ; and see Bloch, Pkirn. (jlottsar. p. 49). The Gr. fonns are 'O^iiatf ('Ova.') and 'A^ocpiat. In a miinber of instances, as in 'i K 15'3. 32 (and in V.34 in A), LXX substitutes 'ACays.af for Uz/.iah, whereas in 2 K 1530 'At«f is substituted for 'ACa^-'av, which is the reacting of A. In Is 0' 71 '0^'cti is the form preserved in Bl^AtJ. It is quit^ possible that the king had really only one name, nmy, and that the name n'ly (Uzziah) may have arisen through a corrup- tion of the text, the early form of * {y'd), viz. ^ , being con- founded with an imperfectly written T (resh), vix. ^ .•
Uzziah was tlie son of Amaziah king of Judah, and, according to the redactor of the l!ooks of Kings (see Kittel's Cum,.), ascended the throne of Judah at the age of sixteen, and in the 27tli year of Jeroboam king of Israel (2 K 15"). It is well known, however, that such synchronisms are of no chronological value, and lead to emlless confusion. We can only a-ssert that both these kings were contemporaries. Whether Uzziah's reign extended to 52 years is uncertain.
The record of his reign in 2 K 14 and 15 is singularly brief. Though the worship of the high places — the normal cult of Israel and Judah — still continued, the verdict of the Deuteronomie redactor is favourable to him, as it wjis to the memory of his father, Amaziah; he 'did what was right in the eyes of the Lord ' (2 K 15^).