זְכַרְיָהZᵉkaryâh

זְכַרְיָהוּ: 1.

Pronunciation: zek-ar-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2148

Meanings

king of Israel, son of Jeroboam II (2 Kings 15:8; 2 Kings 14:29; 2 Kings 15:11)

2. father of Hezekiah's mother (2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Kings 18:2)

3. contemporary of Isaiah (Isaiah 8:2)

4. a Reubenite (1 Chronicles 5:7)

5. a Benjamite (1 Chronicles 9:37; 1 Chronicles 8:31)

6. a Manassite (1 Chronicles 27:21)

7. a son of Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 21:2)

8. a captain of Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:7)

9. teacher of Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:5)

10. Levites

11. priests

f. the well-known prophet (Zechariah 1:1; Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 7:1)

12. returned exiles

e. id. (Nehemiah 11:5)

: proper name, masculine: prophet (Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 43 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 14:29 When Jeroboam II died, he was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Then his son Zechariah became the next king.
  • 2 Kings 15:8 Zechariah son of Jeroboam II began to rule over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Uzziah’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria six months.
  • 2 Kings 15:11 The rest of the events in Zechariah’s reign are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
  • 2 Kings 18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
  • 1 Chronicles 5:7 Beerah’s relatives are listed in their genealogical records by their clans: Jeiel (the leader), Zechariah,
  • 1 Chronicles 9:21 And later Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was responsible for guarding the entrance to the Tabernacle.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).