Bible Person
Meaning: his band; power; praise · Male · 4 cross references
This Iddo entry refers to the priestly ancestor connected with the prophet Zechariah, not other prophets or returnees of the same name. His significance comes through the prophetic-priestly line preserved in Ezra and Zechariah. First appears in Ezra 5:1.1
AI summary: This Iddo matters because the cross references preserve him as the older ancestral figure behind Zechariah's prophetic identity. The name helps explain why Zechariah can be called both son of Berechiah and associated with Iddo, rooting the prophet in a remembered priestly family. Taken together, the material presents this Iddo as the ancestral figure whose line supports Zechariah's prophetic-priestly standing.1
Central Figure
Iddo
Meaning: his band; power; praise
Children
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.