1. A family of priests who bore this name. One had charge of the sixteenth course of priestly service, and some returned from exile, two of whom had married strange wives; but there is no genealogy of their descent from Aaron (1 Chron. 9:12; 1 Chron. 24:14; Ezra 2:37; Ezra 10:20; Neh. 7:40; Neh. 11:13; Jer. 20:1).
2. Father of Zadok who repaired the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:29).
3. Place from which some returned from exile (Ezra 2:59; Neh. 7:61).