Bible Names

Iddo: meaning of the name

Iddo means “his band; power; praise.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Iddo in Hebrew and Greek

אִדּוֹ H112

ʼIddôw (id-do) — Iddo, an Israelite

of uncertain derivation;

יִדּוֹ H3035

Yiddôw (yid-do') — Jiddo, an Israelite

from H3034 (יָדָה); praised;

People named Iddo in the Bible

Iddo in Scripture

“Iddo” appears in 13 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Kings 4:14

    Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:

  • 1 Chronicles 6:21

    Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:21

    Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:

  • 2 Chronicles 9:29

    Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

  • 2 Chronicles 12:15

    Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:22

    And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

  • Ezra 5:1

    Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.

  • Ezra 6:14

    And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.