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Buzi

father of Ezekiel

A priest named as the father of the prophet Ezekiel in the opening verse of the book of Ezekiel.

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Buzi is identified in 1:3 as the father of the prophet Ezekiel and a priest. When the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel, he was among the exiles by the river in , and the text introduces him as "Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi." No further details about Buzi himself are given; he is known solely through his son's prophetic introduction. His priestly lineage places Ezekiel within the Zadokite priestly tradition.

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