Uzza

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A form of Uzzah — An Israelite, mentioned in the Tanakh, who touched the Ark of the Covenant to steady it while it was being conveyed in a cart, and was immediately killed.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Uzzah.
    1 more example

    Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhake and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza.

    1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 203
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