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Uzzi
UZZI (ŭz'ī, Heb. ‘uzzî, strong)
One of Aaron’s descendants who became the father of Zerahiah (
UZZI uz’ ī (עֻזִּ֡י, my strength). 1. A priest in the line of Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron (
2. The first-born of Tola, a descendant of Issachar. The genealogy of Tola and Uzzi is very large. The men of these families are referred to as “mighty warriors” (
3. The second-born son of Bela, a descendant of Benjamin (
4. A Benjaminite family head (
5. A Levite, the son of Bani, a descendant of Asaph (
6. A priest, head of the family of Jedaiah (
7. A Levite in a group that participated with Nehemiah on the walls of Jerusalem in a religious ceremony (
8. The father of Arna and an ancestor of Ezra in apocryphal lit. (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(’uzzi, perhaps "my strength"):
(1) A descendant of Aaron and high priest, unknown apart from these sources (
(2) An eponym of a family of Issachar (
(3) Head of a Benjamite family (
(4) Father of Elah, a Benjamite (
(5) A son of Bani and overseer of the Levitea in Jerusalem (
(6) Head of the priestly family of Jedaiah (