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Meaning and etymology of the name Zadok
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Zadok 
There are six men named Zadok in the Bible. The most famous of these is Zadok, the son of Ahitub, who is a priest in the time of David and high priest in the time of Solomon (2 Samuel 8:17). The prophet Ezekiel reports a sermon by the Lord in which He assigns land to the faithful sons of Zadok (48:11).
Other men named Zadok are
The father of Jerusha, who was the mother of king Jotham, the son of king Uzziah of Judah (2 Kings 15:32);
The son of Ahitub the second. This Zadok son of Ahitub lived about three centuries after the first Zadok son of Ahitub (1 Chronicles 6:12);
A son of Baana who was among the builders of post-exilic Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:4);
A son of Immer, also a new Jerusalem builder (Nehemiah 3:29);
A scribe (Nehemiah 13:13), but he may have been the same as one of the previous two;
And  (Zadok, spelled Sadok) an ancestor of Christ, who was the great-great-grandson of Zerubbabel and the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Joseph the husband of Mary (Matthew 1:14).
For a meaning of the name Zadok, NOBS Study Bible Name List reads Righteous. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names has Just. And BDB Theological Dictionary says Just, Righteous
Related names are
Adoni-zedek,
Jehozadak, Jozadak,
, Jozadak
Melchizedek and
Zedekiah.
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