בֶּרֶכְיָה

Strong’s Definition

Berekjah, the name of six Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

or בֶּרֶכְיָהוּ; from H1290 (בֶּרֶךְ) and H3050 (יָהּ); knee (i.e. blessing) of Jah;

KJV Usage

Berachiah, Berechiah.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.a son of zerubbabel
• 2.a levite who returned for the exile
• 3.father of meshullam, one of nehemiah's chiefs who assisted in rebuilding the walls of jerusalem
• 4.father of zechariah
• 5.a gershonite levite, the father of asaph, the singer, doorkeeper of the ark
• 6.an ephraimite chief in the time of ahaz

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Berekyâh; Pronunciation: beh-rek-yaw'