Berekyah

beh-rek-yaw'
Parts of Speech Proper Name Masculine

Berekyah Definition

Berachiah or Berechiah = "Jehovah blesses"
  1. a son of Zerubbabel
  2. a Levite who returned for the exile
  3. father of Meshullam, one of Nehemiah's chiefs who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem
  4. father of Zechariah
  5. a Gershonite Levite, the father of Asaph, the singer, doorkeeper of the ark
  6. an Ephraimite chief in the time of Ahaz
Audio Pronunciation
Original Language
hykrb
Origin
from (01290) and (03050)
Strong's Number
01296
TDNT Entry
None

KJV Word Usage

Berechiah
10
Berachiah
1
Total
11

The Hebrew lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These files are considered public domain.

Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. "Hebrew Lexicon entry for Berekyah". "The KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon". . .