Dzza

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.