Berechiah
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Berechiah /bɛrəˈkaɪ.ə/ is a Jewish name that occurs several times in the Bible. It is derived from Berakhah, "blessing".[citation needed]
People named Berechiah
In scripture
- the father of the Hebrew prophet Zechariah and son of Iddo, according to Zechariah 1:1, but probably not the prophet by the same name.[clarification needed] In Isaiah 8:2, he is referred to by the longer form of the same name, Jeberechiah or Jeberekiah.
- son of Zerubbabel, according to 1 Chronicles 3:19–20 and the Seder Olam Zutta, was an Exilarch in Babylon
Other people with that name
- Berechiah ha-Nakdan, 13th century writer and fabulist
- Berechiah de Nicole, also known as Benedict fil Mosse, a 13th-century Tosafist who lived at Lincoln, England
- Berechiah Berak ben Isaac Eisik Shapira (died 1664), Galician preacher
References
- ^ T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black, eds. (1901) . "Jeberechiah". Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 2, E–K. New York: The Macmillan Company.
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