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יוֹצָדָק

Jozadak

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Jozadak’ fuller range ↓

H3136 Strong's Hebrew
Yôwtsâdâq Transliteration
/yo-tsaw-dawk'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 5 appearances

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About this entry

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יוצדק — transliterated Yôwtsâdâq — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Jozadak.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ezra. Debuting at Ezra 3:2, it then recurs through the corpus. See 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Jozadak
Modern gloss
Jozadak
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H3136 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

5
distinct verses
The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Ezra 3:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Ezra 3:2.
Nehemiah 12:26
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Nehemiah 12:26.
#3,337
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 5 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Jozadak 5×
  • American Standard Version: Jozadak 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Jozadak 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jozadak 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H3136 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jozadak” 5×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H3136 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jozadak” 5×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H3136 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jozadak” 5×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H3136 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jozadak” 5×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Jozadak = "Jehovah is righteous"
  2. grandson of the high priest Hilkiah…

Word origin

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).

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from יהוצדק (Yᵉhôwtsâdâq) (H3087) — Jehozadak.

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms H3136 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
יֽוֹצָדָ֜ק Noun, Proper Ezra 3:2 2
יֽוֹצָדָ֔ק Noun, Proper Ezra 5:2 1
יֽוֹצָדָק֙ Noun, Proper Ezra 10:18 1
יוֹצָדָ֑ק Noun, Proper Nehemiah 12:26 1

Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jozadak). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(whom Jehovah has made just). (Ezra 3:2,8; 5:2; 10:18; Nehemiah 12:26) The contracted form of Jehozadak.

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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