Bible Person

Ozni

Meaning: an ear; my hearkening · Male · 2 cross references

Ozni is a son of Gad in the patriarchal and wilderness genealogies, also represented by the variant name Ezbon. He belongs to the early tribal memory of Gad's house. First appears in Gen 46:16.1

AI summary: Ozni matters because his cross references place him in both the migration-era family list of Jacob's household and the later tribal reckoning in the wilderness. The paired naming traditions also show how memory of a clan could be preserved under variant forms. Taken together, the material presents Ozni as an ancestral figure in the continuity of Gad's tribal identity.1

Central Figure

Ozni

Meaning: an ear; my hearkening

Hearing, one of the sons of Gad; also called Ezbon (Gen.