{{Short description, Character in the Greek version of the biblical Book of Ezra
Ocidelus (or Ocodelus in
KJV
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) is a character in the Greek version of the biblical
Book of Ezra
The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible; which formerly included the Book of Nehemiah in a single book, commonly distinguished in scholarship as Ezra–Nehemiah. The two became separated with the first printed rabbinic bibles of the earl ...
. His name is given in the ''
Codex Alexandrinus
The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manu ...
'' as Okeidelos (Ωκειδηλος); in the ''
Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209
The Codex Vaticanus ( The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1 ( von Soden), is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old ...
'' and
Henry Barclay Swete
Henry Barclay Swete (14 March 1835 in Bristol – 10 May 1917 in Hitchin) was an English biblical scholar. He became Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1890. He is known for his 1906 commentary on the ''Book of Revelation'', and other ...
, as Okailedos (Ωκαιληδος); in the Fritzsche edition, Okodelos; and in the
King James Version
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and Fritzsehe as Ocodelus.
Ocidelus was one of the sons of Phaisur, and a
priest
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who had married a "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:22). In the listing given in 1 Esdras, his name stands in the place of " Jozabad" in
Ezra
Ezra (; he, עֶזְרָא, '; fl. 480–440 BCE), also called Ezra the Scribe (, ') and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe (''sofer'') and priest (''kohen''). In Greco-Latin Ezra is called Esdras ( grc-gre, Ἔσδρας ...
10:22, and as such the
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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The first version was published under the general editorship ...
suggests that this name is an apocryphal corruption.''International Standard Bible Encyclopedia'' (1915), "Ocidelus"