Strong H1296H1296Lבֶּרֶכְיָה
Berechiah
One of the 6 senses of Strong H1296
- Transliteration
- berekyâh berekyâhû
- Pronunciation
- {beh-rek-yaw'} beh-rek-yaw'-hoo
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
Meaning of the name
Berachiah or Berechiah = "Jehovah blesses"
General definition
In the biblical story
Berechiah
Father of the prophet Zechariah
Berechiah was the father of Zechariah, a prophet during the reign of Darius.
In the Bible
Strong H1296L appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- berechiah2
First verses
- Zechariah 1:1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
- Zechariah 1:7Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,