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# יַדּוּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3037

**Jaddua** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jaddua [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3037/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַדּוּעַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3037/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a chief of the people, one of those sealed Ne 10:22 𝔊L Ιεδδουα. a priest, prob. the high priest in time of Alexander the Great Ne 12:11, 22 𝔊 Ιαδου, 𝔊L Ιεδδου (whence LagBN 113 reads יִדּוּעַ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jaddua (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.22/#tree)

מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֥ל צָד֖וֹק יַדּֽוּעַ׃

*Word for word:* Meshezabel Zadok Jaddua

*JPS 1917:* Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua;

[Nehemiah 12:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.11/#tree)

וְיוֹיָדָע֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־יוֹנָתָ֔ן וְיוֹנָתָ֖ן הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־יַדּֽוּעַ׃

*Word for word:* and Joiada he.fathered (et) Jonathan and Jonathan he.fathered (et) Jaddua

*JPS 1917:* and Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan begot Jaddua.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3037.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3037/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).