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# זְרַחְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2228

**Zerahiah** — used 5 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

Zerahiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2228/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְרַחְיָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2228/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ hath risen, or shined; Sab. דֿרחאל Hal49)—𝔊 Ζαραια:— priest 1 Ch 5:32(×2) 6:36 Ezr 7:4. head of a family of returned exiles Ezr 8:4 (= 1?).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zerahiah (3); of Zerahiah (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.4/#tree)

בֶּן־זְרַֽחְיָ֥ה בֶן־עֻזִּ֖י בֶּן־בֻּקִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Zerahiah the.son of.Uzzi the.son of.Bukki

*JPS 1917:* the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

[1 Chronicles 6:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.36/#tree)

בֻּקִּ֥י בְנ֛וֹ עֻזִּ֥י בְנ֖וֹ זְרַֽחְיָ֥ה בְנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* Bukki son his Uzzi son his Zerahiah son his

*JPS 1917:* Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2228.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2228/): 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).