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# בֶּרֶכְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Berachah** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Berachah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5e8_5b6_5db_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְבֶרֶכְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5e8_5b6_5db_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. ( = יְבָרֶכְיָהוּ s. Yah blesseth Ges§ 27, 3) father of a Zechariah in Isaiah’s time Is 8:2; usually in abbreviated form as foll.: בֶּרֶכְיָה, son of Zerubbabel 1 Ch 3:20. a Levite guard of the ark 1 Ch 9:16; 15:23. father of Meshullam, one of Nehemiah’s chiefs Ne 3:4, 30; 6:18. father of the prophet Zechariah Zc 1:1 = בֶּרֶכְיָהוּ v 7; בֶּרֶכְיָהוּ also father of Asaph 1 Ch 6:24; 15:17. Ephraimite chief 2 Ch 28:12.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Berekiah (3); Berekiah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.24/#tree)

וְאָחִ֣יו אָסָ֔ף הָעֹמֵ֖ד עַל־יְמִינ֑וֹ אָסָ֥ף בֶּן־בֶּרֶכְיָ֖הוּ בֶּן־שִׁמְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and relative his Asaph \[was\].the \[one.who\].stood at hand his.right Asaph \[was\].the.son of.Berekiah the.son of.Shimea

*JPS 1917:* And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand; even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea;

[1 Chronicles 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.17/#tree)

וַיַּעֲמִ֣ידוּ הַלְוִיִּ֗ם אֵ֚ת הֵימָ֣ן בֶּן־יוֹאֵ֔ל וּמִ֨ן־אֶחָ֔יו אָסָ֖ף בֶּן־בֶּֽרֶכְיָ֑הוּס וּמִן־בְּנֵ֤י מְרָרִי֙ אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם אֵיתָ֖ן בֶּן־קֽוּשָׁיָֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.appointed the Levites (et) Heman the.son of.Joel and of relatives his Asaph the.son of.Berekiah and of the.descendants of.Merari relatives their Ethan the.son of.Kushaiah

*JPS 1917:* So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5e8_5b6_5db_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5e8_5b6_5db_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).