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Jahdo

Man living at the time of Divided Monarchy

Jahdo, a son of Buz, was a descendant of Gad and a clan head.

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Jahdo is mentioned in 1Ch.5.14 as a son of Buz, who was a descendant of Gad. He is listed among the clan heads of the Gadites during the reign of King Jotham of Judah and King Jeroboam II of Israel. This suggests that Jahdo held a leadership position within the tribe of Gad during this period. The biblical text does not provide any further details about Jahdo's life or specific role as a clan head.

Family

Father
Buz
Children
Jeshishai

Bible dictionary

Jahdo Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(united), a Gadite, (1 Chronicles 5:14) son of Buz and father of Jeshishai.

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Jahdo Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

I alone; his joy; his sharpness of wit; his newness

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Jahdo Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

JAH'DO (his union), a Gadite. 1 Chr 5:14.

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Jahdo Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

JAH'DO (his union), a Gadite. 1 Chr 5:14.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Jahdo appears

1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H3163

1 Chronicles1

Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.