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joz´a-bad (יוזבד, yoÌ„zaÌ„bhaÌ„dh, “Yahweh has bestowedâ€):
(1) A Gederathite, and one of David's recruits at Ziklag ( (Hebrew 5)). He is named with the Benjamites, but possibly he was a native of the town Gedara in Southern Judah. See Curtis, Chronicles, 196.
(2), (3) Two Manassite captains who joined David at Ziklag ( (Hebrew 21)).
(4) A Levite overseer in Hezekiah's time (); may be the ancestor of the chief of the priests in = “Joram†of 1 Esdras 1:9.
(5) A Levite (), mentioned again probably in ; ; . The name in 1 Esdras 8:63 ( = ) is “Josabdus†(the King James Version “Josabadâ€).
(6) A priest who had married a foreign wife ) = “Ocidelus†of 1 Esdras 9:22.