Ocidelus

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Ocidelus (or Ocodelus KJV) is a character from the apocryphal (or "deuterocanonical") First Book of Esdras. His name is given in the Codex Alexandrinus as Okeidelos; in the Codex Vaticanus and Henry Barclay Swete, as Okailedos; in the Fritzsche edition, Okodelos; and in the King James Version and Fritzsehe as Ocodelus.

Ocidelus was one of the sons of Phaisur, and a priest who had married a "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:22). In the listing given in 1 Esdras, his name stands in the place of "Jozabad" in Ezra 10:22, and as such the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia suggests that this name is an apocryphal corruption.^[1]