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IDDO

(also ADAIAH, JADDAI)

The English translation of three distinct Hebrew names.

1. (Heb. ʿiddô, ʿiddōʾ) The father of Ahinadab, one of Solomon’s 12 district administrators (1 Kgs. 4:14). The ancient textual versions give this figure varying names.

2. A Levite descended from Gershom (1 Chr. 6:21[MT 6]). He is also called Adaiah (2; 1 Chr. 6:41[26]), and identified as an ancestor of Asaph.

3. A prophet credited with authoring a midraš, a “written investigation” of history (2 Chr. 9:29 [K yeʿdî, Q yeʿdô]; 12:15; 13:22). A work separate from the official Judean annals, this history must have been associated with the scribal activities of a prophetic circle with some independent power within the Jerusalemite court. The Chronicler cites the history as a source of the activities of Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijah.

4. The grandfather of the prophet Zechariah (Zech. 1:1, 7; cf. Ezra 5:1; 6:14; 1 Esdr. 6:1; NRSV “son”). Iddo was a priest in charge of one of the priestly families that returned to Yehud from Babylonian Exile (Neh. 12:4). Zechariah eventually officiated as head of his priestly household (Neh. 12:16). Given the Zecharian traditions’ kinship to those of Ezekiel, the priesthood branch of Iddo and Zechariah is best considered to be Zadokite.

5. (yiddô, yaddô, yadday) A tribal leader under David (1 Chr. 27:21). He was responsible for the half-tribe of Manasseh, in Gilead.

6. A Yehudite who had married a foreign woman (Ezra 10:43; 1 Esdr. 9:35). Most English translations render this figure’s name “Jaddai.”

7. (ʾiddô) A Judean leader in a diaspora settlement in Casiphia, in Babylon (Ezra 8:17; cf. 1 Esdr. 8:45-46). Ezra sent to him for Levites and Nethinim to serve in the Second Temple.

Stephen L. Cook