Zadok Zadok (), also spelled Ṣadok, Ṣadoc, Zadoq, Tzadok or Tsadoq (; lit. 'righteous, justified'), was a Kohen (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron. He was the High Priest of Israel during the reigns of Dav ...

was a high priest of the Israelites in Jerusalem during the reigns of David and Solomon. Zadok may also refer to:

Given name

* The founder of the

Sadducees The Sadducees (; ) were a sect of Jews active in Judea during the Second Temple period, from the second century BCE to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The Sadducees are described in contemporary literary sources in contrast to ...

, the priestly sect during the time of the Second Temple * Zadok, the father of Jerusha, who was the mother of King Jotham of Judah * Zadok, a Pharisee and co-founder of the

Zealots The Zealots were members of a Jewish political movements, Jewish political movement during the Second Temple period who sought to incite the people of Judaea (Roman province), Judaea to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Land ...

* Zadok, son of Azor, appearing in the

Genealogy of Jesus The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. Matthew starts with Abraham and works forwards, while Luke works back in time from Jesus to Adam. The lists of na ...

Zadok HaKohen Rabbi Zadok ha-Kohen Rabinowitz of Lublin (in Hebrew: צדוק הכהן מלובלין) ( Krustpils, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire, 1823 – Lublin, Poland, 1900), or Tzadok Hakohen or Tzadok of Lublin, was a significant Jewish thinker and ...

Rabinowitz, an important 19th Century Hasidic rabbi. *

Zadok II The Sons of Zadok () or Zadokites is a lineage of priests (kohanim) descended from Zadok that is described in the prophecies of Ezekiel. Zadok himself was the first high priest in Solomon's Temple (10th century BCE). His descendants were high pr ...

, grandson of Azariah * Zadoc P. Beach, American politician * Zadoc Kahn (1839-1905

Surname

* Erez Zadok is the current maintainer of the Berkeley Automounter * Charles Zadok (1897-1984), American businessman, art collector and patron *

Haim Yosef Zadok Haim Joseph Zadok (, born Haim Wilkenfeld; 2 October 1913 – 15 August 2002) was an Israeli jurist and politician. Early life Zadok was born in 1913 in Rava-Ruska in Eastern Galicia in Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He studied philosophy and Je ...

(1913-2002), Israeli jurist and politician *

Rabbi Zadok Rabbi Zadok (Hebrew: רבי צדוק) was a Tanna of the second generation of the Tannaic era, a contemporary of Joshua ben Hananiah and Eliezer ben Hurcanus, descending from Tribe of Benjamin. Rabbi Zadok was one of the notable Tannaim of his ...

, ''tanna'' of the 1st-century CE * Rachel Zadok, South-African writer currently based in London, England * Yehuda Zadok (born 1958), Israeli Olympic runner * , Israeli composer * Moshe Tzadok * Osnat Tzadok

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

*Zadok Allen, a character in the H. P. Lovecraft novella ''

The Shadow over Innsmouth ''The Shadow over Innsmouth'' is a Horror fiction, horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November – December 1931 in literature, 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilizatio ...

Music

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Zadok the Priest ''Zadok the Priest'' ( HWV 258) is a British anthem that was composed by George Frideric Handel for the coronation of George II in 1727. Alongside '' The King Shall Rejoice'', '' My Heart is Inditing'', and '' Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened'', ' ...

'', an 18th-century coronation anthem by Handel

Companies

*Zadok, a manufacturer of music soft and hardware (Zadok Audio & Media Products), see the

List of synthesizer manufacturers Notable synthesizer manufacturers past and present include: A * Access Music * Alesis * ARP Instruments, Inc., ARP * Arturia * Akai B * Behringer * Buchla and Associates C * Casio * Clavia * Crumar D * Dave Smith Instruments * Dewt ...