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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

jo-a-da'-nus (Ioadanos: In 1 Esdras 9:19, apparently, through some corruption; the same as Gedaliah, a son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, in Ezr 10:18.