Zadok

Hebrew

"righteous"

Zadok Origin and Meaning

Variation of Zadock

Famous People Named Zadok

• Zadok Biblical priest who showed great courage during the reigns of the first three kings of Israel
• Zadok son of Ahitub, father of Shallum, of the house of Aaron (1 Chr. 6:12)
• Zadok father of Jerushah the mother of Judean King Jotham (2 Chr. 27:1)
• Zadok son of Baana; a rebuilder of Jerusalem's walls (Nehemiah 3:4)
• Zadok son of Immer; repairer of Jerusalem's walls (Nehemiah 3:29)
• Zadok Magruder American Revolutionary
• Zadok Casey U.S. Congressman from Illinois
• Zadok HaKohen Lithuanian rabbi

The name Zadok in Pop Culture

• Zadok a "rapacious Jew" in The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton (1594) by Thomas Nashe
• Zadok Allen character from H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth
• "Zadok the Priest" one of the four Coronation Anthems composed by George Frideric Handel for the coronation of George II in 1727, and sung at every coronation of a British sovereign since