זְכַרְיָה

Strong’s Definition

Zecarjah, the name of twenty-nine Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

or זְכַרְיָהוּ; from H2142 (זָכַר) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has remembered;

KJV Usage

Zachariah, Zechariah.

Detailed Definition

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

• 1.11th in order of the minor prophets; a priest, son of berechiah and grandson of iddo, who, along with haggai, directed the rebuilding of the temple in the days of zerubbabel
• 2.king of israel, son of jeroboam ii
• 3.son of meshelemiah of shelemiah, a korhite, and keeper of the north gate of the tabernacle of the congregation
• 4.one of the sons of jehiel
• 5.a levite of the second order in the temple band in the time of david
• 6.one of the princes of judah in the reign of jehoshaphat
• 7.son of the high priest jehoiada, in the reign of joash king of judah, who was stoned in the court of the temple
• 8.a kohathite levite in the reign of josiah
• 9.the leader of the sons of pharosh who returned with ezra
• 10.son of bebai
• 11.one of the chiefs of the people whom ezra summoned in council at the river ahava; stood at ezra's left hand when ezra expounded the law to the people
• 12.one of the family of elam who had married a foreign wife after the captivity
• 13.ancestor of athaiah or uthai
• 14.a shilonite, descendant of perez, grandfather of athaiah
• 15.a priest, son of pashur
• 16.the representative of the priestly family of iddo in the days of joiakim the son of jeshua; possibly the same as 1 above
• 17.one of the priests, son of jonathan, who blew with the trumpets at the dedication of the city wall by ezra and nehemiah
• 18.a chief of the reubenites at the time of the captivity by tiglath-pileser
• 19.one of the priests who accompanied the ark from the house of obed-edom
• 20.son of isshiah of jesiah, a kohathite levite descended from uzziel
• 21.4th son of hosah, of the children of merari
• 22.a manassite, father of iddo
• 23.father of jahaziel. he prophesied in the spirit
• 24.one of the sons of jehoshaphat
• 25.a prophet in the reign of uzziah, who appears to have acted as the king's counsellor, but of whom nothing is known
• 26.father of abijah or abi, hezekiah's mother
• 27.one of the family of asaph in the reign of hezekiah
• 28.one of the rulers of the temple in the reign of josiah
• 29.son of jeberechiah who was taken by the prophet isaiah as one of the 'faithful witnesses to record' when he wrote concerning maher-shalal-hash-baz

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Zᵉkaryâh; Pronunciation: zek-ar-yaw'