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Zechariah (Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה), with many variant forms and spellings such as Zachariah and Zacharias, is a theophoric masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "God/YHWH remembers". It comes from the Hebrew root זכר , meaning to remember, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and yah , one of the names of the God of Israel .
Zechariah is the most common name in the Hebrew Bible. Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), a prophet of the kingdom of Judah, spelled this way in KJV. His writings, the Book of Zechariah. Zechariah of Israel (Zachariah in KJV), king of Israel (reigned for 6 months in c. 752 BCE), son of Jeroboam; Zechariah Ben Jehoiada, son of the High Priest in the ...
As soon as Zechariah had written on a writing table: "His name is John", he regained the power of speech, and blessed "the Lord God of Israel" with a prophecy known as the Benedictus or "Song of Zechariah" (Luke 1:57–79). Domenico Ghirlandaio's fresco Zechariah Writes Down the Name of His Son (1490, fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel, Florence)
Zechariah (given name), a given name (with list of people and fictional characters with the name); includes all the variants (Zacharias, Zecharias, Zechariah, etc.) Zacharias (surname) and various related forms (with list of people with the name) Zachary, a given name (and list of people with the name)
Zechariah, Zachary Zakariya (also transliterated as Zakaria , Zakariyya , Zekariya , Zakaryah etc, Arabic : زَكَرِيَّاء or زَكَرِيَّا ) is a masculine given name, the Arabic form of Zechariah which is of Hebrew origin, meaning "God/YHWH has remembered".
Meaning: Remembered by God: Region of origin: Ancient Israel: ... Zachary is a male given name, a variant of Zechariah – the name of several biblical characters ...
The name "Zechariah" means "God remembered." Not much is known about Zechariah's life other than what may be inferred from the book. It has been speculated that his grandfather Iddo was the head of a priestly family who returned with Zerubbabel [7] and that Zechariah may have been a priest as well as a prophet.
Zechariah (Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה Zəḵaryā, meaning "remembered by Yah"; also Zachariah, Zacharias; Latin: Zacharias) was the fourteenth king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel, and son of Jeroboam II. Zechariah became king of Israel in Samaria in the thirty-eighth year of Azariah, king of Judah.