זְכַרְיָהוּ
ze.khar.yah
Zechariah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Zechariah (H2148C): A Biblical Name Based on the lexical data provided, זְכַרְיָהוּ (Zechariah) is a proper noun appearing twice in the Hebrew Bible. The name itself carries semantic weight: it combines elements meaning "to remember" (zkr) and "God" (yah), literally denoting "God remembers" or "Yahweh remembers." This theophoric structure—embedding a divine name within a personal name—was a common practice in ancient Hebrew nomenclature, encoding theological meaning into individual identity. The minimal occurrence count of two attestations in the biblical text suggests this particular spelling or form was either less commonly used than variant forms of the name, or appeared in specific textual traditions. Without additional context from the provided data regarding which biblical passages contain these occurrences, we cannot determine whether they refer to the same individual or different persons bearing the name. The name's brevity in the biblical record stands in contrast to its theological significance within Judaeo-Christian tradition, though such significance cannot be established from the lexicon data alone.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
2 total occurrences across the text
Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 Kings 18:2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.