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<p> <b> [[Chuza]] </b> <b> ( </b> Χουζᾶς).—The ἐπίτροπος or house-steward of Herod the tetrarch, and husband of [[Joanna]] one of the women who, having been healed either of a sickness or of an evil spirit, attached themselves to Jesus and ‘ministered unto him of their substance’ (&nbsp;Luke 8:3). Chuza is identified by Mr. Stanley Cook ( <i> Glossary of [[Aramaic]] [[Inscriptions]] </i> , Cambr. 1898) with the father of one Hayyân whose family erected a rock-cut tomb at el-Hegr in Arabia, with the inscription: לחיןבדבוזאאחדה ‘To Hayyân, son of Kûzâ, his posterity (erected this tomb).’ The monument is probably of the 1st cent. b.c. or a.d. Blass (of the Gospels), on the authority of , a 7th cent. MS of the Vulgate, identifies the name with the Greek Κυδἰας; but this seems more than doubtful. Chuza may have been of a Nabataean family, married to a [[Jewish]] wife. Joanna is also mentioned (&nbsp;Luke 24:10) as one of the women who came early to the sepulchre to anoint the Lord’s body (See Joanna). </p> <p> <i> [[Chuzas]] </i> is preferred by the American Committee of Revisers as the more proper spelling of Chuza. </p> <p> Literature.—Expositor, v. ix. [1899] 118 ff.; Edersheim, <i> Life and Times </i> , i. 429, 572. </p> <p> R. Macpherson. </p>

<p> [pron. Cuza] (rather Chuzas, Χουζάς, for Chald. חוּוָא, i.e. אֲחוּוָא '', Possession'' )'','' the "steward" (ἐπιτροπος ) of Herod (Antipas), whose wife Joanna (q.v.), having been cured by our Lord either of possession by an evil spirit or of a disease, became attached to that body of women who accompanied him (A.D. 27) on his journeyings (&nbsp;Luke 8:3); and, together with Mary [[Magdalen]] and "Mary the mother of James," having come early to the sepulcher on the morning of the resurrection (A.D. 29), to bring spices and ointments to complete the burial, brought word to the apostles that the Lord was risen (&nbsp;Luke 24:10). These circumstances would seem to imply that she was at this time a widow. </p>