(Jaʹdon) [possibly a shortened form of Jaazaniah, meaning “Jehovah Has Given Ear”].

A Meronothite who helped Nehemiah rebuild Jerusalem’s wall in 455 B.C.E. Jadon was apparently from the vicinity of Mizpah.​—Ne 3:7.

Josephus calls the unnamed prophet in 1 Kings 13 “Jadon.”​—Jewish Antiquities, VIII, 231 (viii, 5).