Person Old Testament
Uzzah
Also known as Uzzah =ESV, NIV, KJV; Uzza =KJV, Perez-uzzah =ESV, KJV; Perez Uzzah =NIV
Uzzah died while moving the ark; the place was named Perez-uzzah. Mentioned in 8 verses across 2 books, first at 2 Samuel 6:3.
Why it matters. Died while moving the ark; place named after him
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Uzzah
Uzzah was a man who died while transporting the ark of the covenant. He and his brother Ahio were guiding the cart carrying the ark when the oxen stumbled. Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, but God struck him down for his irreverent act, and he died there beside the ark. The place where this occurred was named Perez-uzzah, which means "outbreak against Uzzah," and David was angry and afraid because of this divine judgment. The ark was then taken aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
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Appears in Scripture
Named in 8 verses across 2 books. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.