Zadok

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1. Zadok or Zadoc (zãdo:k) is a small village about Birjand.
2. Zadok (Hebrew: צדוק‎) is a Hebrew name, meaning "righteous".

Contents 1 Hebrew Bible 2 Contemporary people 3 Fictional people 4 Music

[edit] Hebrew Bible

Zadok was the name of several individuals in the Hebrew Bible.

1. The first high priest of the Israelites in Jerusalem after it was conquered by David. # The father of Jerusha, who was wife of King Uzziah, and mother of King Jotham (2 Kings 15:33; 2 Chr. 27:1).
2. "The scribe" set over the treasuries of the temple by Nehemiah along with a priest and a Levite (Nehemiah 13:13).
3. The son of Baana, one of those who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:4).
4. The Hebrew term for Sadducees (Zadokim), the Priestly sect during the time of the Second Temple
5. A founder of the Zealots along with Judas of Galilee^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Contemporary people

• Rachel Zadok is a South-African writer currently based in London, England.
• Erez Zadok is the current maintainer of the Berkeley Automounter

[edit] Fictional people

Zadok Allen is a character in the H. P. Lovecraft story, The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

[edit] Music

Zadok the Priest is an 18th century coronation anthem that was composed by Handel for the coronation of George II. It was regarded as a faux pas when the now Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, formerly Mary Donaldson of Taroona, Tasmania, chose the music for her wedding to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark.