Zadok

Hebrew

"righteous"

Updated Wed Feb 04 2026

Zadok Origin and Meaning

Variation of Zadock

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)
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father of Jerushah the mother of Judean King Jotham (2 Chr. 27:1)
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son of Baana; a rebuilder of Jerusalem's walls (Nehemiah 3:4)
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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

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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

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