Bible Names

Zachariah: meaning of the name

Zachariah means “memory of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Zachariah in Hebrew and Greek

זְכַרְיָה H2148

Zᵉkaryâh (zek-ar-yaw') — Zecarjah, the name of twenty-nine Israelites

or זְכַרְיָהוּ; from H2142 (זָכַר) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has remembered;

Who named Zachariah in the Bible

Zachariah in Scripture

“Zachariah” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 14:29

    And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 15:8

    In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

  • 2 Kings 15:11

    And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

  • 2 Kings 18:2

    Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.