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# יוֹצָדָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3136

**Jozadak** — used 4 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

Jozadak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3136/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְהוֹצָדָק: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3136/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ is righteous; cf. צִדְקִיָּהוּ Sab. צדקאל Hal 193) father of Joshua the high-priest, יְהוֹ׳ Hg 1:1, 12, 14; 2:2, 4 Zc 6:11 1 Ch 5:40, 41; = יוֹ׳ Ezr 3:2, 8; 5:2; 10:18 Ne 12:26 (𝔊 Ἰωσαδακ, Ἰωσεδεκ).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 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: of Jozadak (4).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.26/#tree)

אֵ֕לֶּה בִּימֵ֛י יוֹיָקִ֥ים בֶּן־יֵשׁ֖וּעַ בֶּן־יוֹצָדָ֑ק וּבִימֵי֙ נְחֶמְיָ֣ה הַפֶּחָ֔ה וְעֶזְרָ֥א הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הַסּוֹפֵֽר׃פ

*Word for word:* these \[were\].in the.days of.Joiakim the.son of.Jeshua the.son of.Jozadak and in the.days of.Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest the scribe

*JPS 1917:* These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe.

[Ezra 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.18/#tree)

וַיִּמָּצֵא֙ מִבְּנֵ֣י הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֹשִׁ֖יבוּ נָשִׁ֣ים נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת מִבְּנֵ֨ייֵשׁ֤וּעַ בֶּן־יֽוֹצָדָק֙ וְאֶחָ֔יו מַֽעֲשֵׂיָה֙ וֶֽאֱלִיעֶ֔זֶר וְיָרִ֖יב וּגְדַלְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.found some of.the.sons of the.priests who they.had.married women foreign some of.the.sons of.Jeshua the.son of.Jozadak and brothers his Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah

*JPS 1917:* And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women, namely: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3136.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3136/): 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).