Bible Names

Zechariah: meaning of the name

Zechariah means “same as Zachariah.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Zechariah 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;

People named Zechariah in the Bible

Zechariah in Scripture

“Zechariah” appears in 39 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Chronicles 5:7

    And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

  • 1 Chronicles 9:21

    And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:37

    And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:18

    And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, the porters.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:20

    And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;

  • 1 Chronicles 15:24

    And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed–edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

  • 1 Chronicles 16:5

    Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed–edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

  • 1 Chronicles 24:25

    The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.