פֶּרֶץ עֻזָּאPerets ʻUzzâʼ
Perets-Uzza, a place in Palestine
Pronunciation: peh'-rets ooz-zaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6560
Meanings
1. son of Judah and Tamar (Genesis 46:12; Genesis 38:29; Numbers 26:20)
2. location
a. near Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6:8; 2 Chronicles 13:11)
b. perhaps = ׳ בַּעַל פ, compare רִמֹּן פָּ֑רֶץ (Isaiah 28:21; Isaiah 12:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 6:8 David was angry because the Lord’s anger had burst out against Uzzah. He named that place Perez-uzzah (which means “to burst out against Uzzah”), as it is still called today.
- 1 Chronicles 13:11 David was angry because the Lord’s anger had burst out against Uzzah. He named that place Perez-uzzah (which means “to burst out against Uzzah”), as it is still called today.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).