< the name of Zadok, a high priest of Israel in the time of King David + ‑itesuffix1.
Meaning & use
noun
1910–
A member of a Jewish sect which seceded from orthodox Judaism in the second century b.c., and traced its authority back to Zadok.
1910
It is the Zadokites from which the Sect derived its spiritual pedigree.
S. Schechter, Fragments of Zadokite Work p. xxi
1920
The Sadducees were thus not a religious party at all, but simply a body of people bound together by a common interest to maintain the existing régime. The name is explained as meaning ‘Zadokites’, and was given to them by their opponents, the Pharisees, who borrowed it from an earlier age..when the descendants of Zadok, who then filled the high-priestly office, identified themselves with Hellenism in its most dangerous forms.
Encyclopaedia of Religion & Ethicsvol. XI. 43/2
1960
It may also be that..some deported Zadokites returned to Jerusalem.
translation of Noth's Hist. Israeliii. ii. 316
1974
The Zadokites may have constituted the survival of an ancient Jebusite (Canaanite) royal priesthood.
Of, pertaining to, or designating the members of this sect; spec. applied to fragments of sectarian texts discovered in Cairo in 1896–7 and later traced back to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
1910
Fragments of a Zadokite work.
S. Schechter(title)
1912
There is no question as to the genuineness of the orders of the Zadokite Priests and Levites.
R. H. Charles, Fragm. of Zadokite Wk. p. vii
1912
The Zadokite Party represents an attempt at reform beginning within the ranks of the priesthood and extending outwards so as to embrace a strong lay element.
R. H. Charles, Fragm. of Zadokite Wk. p. x
1921
In the so called Zadokite document of Jewish piety, just before the days of Jesus, the idea of a new covenant, a covenant of repentance, began to be linked to the expectation of a messiah.
J. Moffatt, Approach to New Testament i. 60
1954
Represented..is a fragment of the ‘Zadokite work’. This document, long an enigma to scholars, had been recognized as related to the Qumran sectarian works as soon as the finds of 1947 became known.
Biblical Archaeologistvol. 17 8
1974
Another sectarian book of ordinances is the Damascus Document (the Zadokite Fragments). The work was already known from two medieval copies before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but fragments of it also were found in Qumrān.
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.
Vowels
iːfleece
ihappy
ɪkit
ɛdress
atrap, bath
ɑːstart, palm, bath
ɒlot
ɔːthought, force
ʌstrut
ʊfoot
uːgoose
əletter
əːnurse
ɪənear
ɛːsquare
ʊəcure
eɪface
ʌɪpride
aʊmouth
əʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ãgratin
ɒ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
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The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
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Zadokite typically occurs about 0.05 times per million words in modern written English.
Zadokite is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of Zadokite, n. & adj., 1920–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1920
0.017
1930
0.02
1940
0.023
1950
0.027
1960
0.033
1970
0.04
1980
0.045
1990
0.048
2000
0.051
2010
0.054
Zadokite, n. & adj. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.
Zadokite, n. & adj. was last modified in December 2024.