IDDO ĭd’ ō. 1. (עִדֹּ֖א, opportune, timely, 1 Kings 4:14): father of one of Solomon’s twelve district officers, named Abinadab.

2. (יִדֹּ֖ו, beloved favorite, 1 Chron 6:21). A Levite from the family of Gershom, who is presumably the same one referred to in v. 41 as Adaiah (עֲדָיָֽה). He is the son of Joah and the father of Zerah.

3. A prince appointed by David over the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, the son of Zechariah (1 Chron 27:21).

4. One of the men guilty of taking a foreigner for a wife and who was compelled by Ezra to release her (1 Esd 9:35; Jaddai, Ezra 10:43).

5. (עִדֹּ֥ו or עִדּﯴא). A prophet and seer who served as the source for the Chronicler’s material on Solomon (2 Chron 9:29), Rehoboam (2 Chron 12:15), and Abijah (2 Chron 13:22). In 2 Chronicles 9:29 the Kethiv is יֶעְדִּי and the Qere is יֶעְדֹּ֣ו.

6. (אִדֹּ֣ו, noble, mighty [?]). The head of a group of Levites at Casiphia who provided Ezra with Levites and Nethinim to be servants in the Temple upon their return to Jerusalem after the Exile (Ezra 8:17; 1 Esd 8:45, 46).

7. (עֲדָיָא, H6345, Qere of Neh 12:16; עִדֹּ֥וא, Kethib of Neh 12:16). One of the priestly families who returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem. (Neh 12:4, 16). Because 12:16 makes him the father of Zechariah, many connect this Iddo with 8 below.

8. (עִדֹּ֥וא), the grandfather of Zechariah the prophet (Zech 1:1, 7; Ezra 5:1; 6:14). If the Heb. accents connecting the words “Iddo the prophet” (cf. LXX and Vulgate) are accepted, then this is a different Iddo from 7 above.