Uzai

Uzai is named once in scripture, identified only as the father of one of the men who repaired Jerusalem's wall under Nehemiah.

Father of Palal

In the roster of wall-builders, Uzai surfaces only through his son's patronymic: "Palal the son of Uzai [repaired] across from the turning [of the wall], and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh [repaired]" (Ne 3:25). The surrounding section places this stretch between Binnui's repair "from the house of Azariah to the turning [of the wall], and to the corner" (Ne 3:24) and the dwelling of those given to temple service "on Ophel, to the place across from the water gate toward the east" (Ne 3:26).

The text supplies nothing else about Uzai — no tribe, no town, no further family. He is preserved in the record only because his son's labor on the wall is preserved.