Strong H31363 sensesיוֹצָדָק

Meaning of the name

The 3 senses of Strong H3136

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H3136 appears in 5 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. Father of Joshua the high priest during the exile.H3136A3 verses · Ezra, Nehemiah
2. Father of Joshua the high priest during the exile.H3136B1 verse · Ezra
3. A priest whose descendants married foreign womenH3136G1 verse · Ezra

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• jozadak5

First verses

1. Ezra 3:2
   Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
2. Ezra 3:8
   Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.
3. Ezra 5:2
   Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
4. Ezra 10:18
   And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
5. Nehemiah 12:26
   These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.