HebrewH3037Proper Noun (Masculine)
יַדּוּעַ
yad.du.a
“Jaddua”
2Occurrences
H3037Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
Jaddua, the name of two Israelites
from H3045 (יָדַע); knowing;
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at § Jaddua = "knowing" 1) one of the chiefs of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah 2) son and successor in the high priesthood of Jonathan, Jeshua, or Johanan; the last of the high priests mentioned in the OT, probably living in the time of Alexander the Great
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Proper Noun (Masculine)
Morphology Code
N:N-M-P
Full Description
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
יַדּוּעַ appears 2 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Nehemiah
2
Key Passages
Nehemiah 12:11BSB
Joiada was the father of Jonathan,and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.
Nehemiah 12:22BSB
In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, during the reign of Darius the Persian, the heads of the families of the Levites and priests were recorded.
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