IDDO

(Idʹdo) [1-5: shortened form of Adaiah, meaning “Jehovah Has Decked [the nameholder]”].

1. Son of Joah; a Levite of the family of Gershom.​—1Ch 6:19-21.

2. Father of Ahinadab, the one serving as Solomon’s food deputy in Mahanaim.​—1Ki 4:7, 14.

3. A visionary whose writings were consulted by the compiler of Chronicles for information concerning the affairs of Kings Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijah. Iddo’s writings are referred to as an “exposition,” a “commentary,” or a “midrash.”​—2Ch 9:29; 12:15; 13:22, ftn.

4. Father of Berechiah and grandfather of the prophet Zechariah. (Ezr 5:1; 6:14; Zec 1:1, 7) This Iddo may be the same as No. 5.

5. A priest listed among those returning to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in 537 B.C.E. In the days of High Priest Joiakim the paternal house of Iddo was headed by Zechariah. (Ne 12:1, 4, 12, 16) He may be the same as No. 4.

6. [possibly from a root meaning “laud”; or from a different root meaning “know”]. Son of a certain Zechariah; prince of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead in King David’s time.​—1Ch 27:21, 22.

7. Head of the Nethinim temple servants residing at Casiphia, 220 of whom accompanied Ezra to Jerusalem in 468 B.C.E.​—Ezr 8:17, 20.