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# בֶּרֶכְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1296

**Berachiah** — used 7 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

Berachiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1296/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְבֶרֶכְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1296/#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, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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 (4); Berekiah (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 15:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.23/#tree)

וּבֶֽרֶכְיָה֙ וְאֶלְקָנָ֔ה שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים לָאָרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Berekiah and Elkanah gatekeepers for the ark

*JPS 1917:* And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark.

[1 Chronicles 3:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.20/#tree)

וַחֲשֻׁבָ֡ה וָ֠אֹהֶל וּבֶרֶכְיָ֧ה וַֽחֲסַדְיָ֛ה י֥וּשַׁב חֶ֖סֶד י֥וּשַׁב חֶ֖סֶד חָמֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and Hashubah and Ohel and Berekiah and Hasadiah Jushab-Hesed Jushab-Hesed five

*JPS 1917:* and Hashubah and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1296.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1296/): 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).