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Dodo

Dodo

(Doʹdo) [from a root meaning “beloved”].

1. An ancestor, probably the grandfather, of Judge Tola of the tribe of Issachar.​—Jg 10:1.

2. A descendant of Benjamin through Ahohi. Dodo’s son Eleazar was one of David’s three mighty men. (2Sa 23:9; 1Ch 11:12) Dodai (an alternate form of Dodo) served, perhaps in a representative sense through his son Eleazar, as chief of the army division of the second month.​—1Ch 27:4.

3. A resident of Bethlehem whose son Elhanan was one of David’s mighty men.​—2Sa 23:24; 1Ch 11:26.