Second Temple Era · Tribe of Yehudah

Who Was Sadoc? — Genealogical link — fourth of the 'silent generation' named only in Matthew 1:14

צָדוֹק
“righteous”
Quick Facts
Hebrew Name
צָדוֹק (Tzadok)
Meaning
righteous
Tribe
Yehudah
Era
Second Temple Era
Approx. Dates
Hellenistic period, 4th–3rd century BCE (no independent dates recorded)
Father
Azor
Role
Genealogical link — fourth of the 'silent generation' named only in Matthew 1:14
Appears In
Matthew 1:14
Source Confidence
Primary

The Story of Sadoc

Named only once in scripture, as the link between Azor and Achim: 'Azor begat Tzadok; and Tzadok begat Achim' (Matthew 1:14)

“'Azor begat Tzadok; and Tzadok begat Achim' (Matthew 1:14) — a name ('righteous') shared with David's high priest, borne here by a man otherwise unknown”

Traditional note: See the general note on the 'silent generation' (Matthew 1:13–15) in 'aviud'. Disambiguation: this dataset's id is 'tzadok-ben-azor' rather than the unqualified 'tzadok', because 'Tzadok' ('righteous') is also the name of the much more prominent priestly figure Tzadok ha-Kohen — David and Shlomo's high priest (2 Samuel 8:17, 15:24–29, 1 Kings 1:32–45, 1 Kings 2:35), planned for this dataset's Levitical-line section per familytree.md's production_order step 3. The two are different individuals from different tribes (this Tzadok is of Yehudah, by genealogy; Tzadok ha-Kohen is Levitical) living centuries apart, who happen to share a common name — the same situation already documented for 'menashe-melech-yehudah'.

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