יַדּוּעַYaddûwaʻ

Jaddua, the name of two Israelites

Pronunciation: yad-doo'-ah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3037

Meanings

1. a chief of the people, one of those sealed (Nehemiah 10:22)

2. a priest, probably the high priest in time of Alexander the Great (Nehemiah 12:11; Nehemiah 12:22)

Same root

יָדַעyâdaʻ · H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

Nehemiah 10:21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
Nehemiah 12:11 Joiada was the father of Johanan. Johanan was the father of Jaddua.
Nehemiah 12:22 A record of the Levite families was kept during the years when Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua served as high priest. Another record of the priests was kept during the reign of Darius the Persian.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).