זְכַרְיָה
Zᵉkaryâh · zek-ar-yaw'
Zecarjah, the name of twenty-nine Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: or זְכַרְיָהוּ; from H2142 (זָכַר) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has remembered;
Zecarjah, the name of twenty-nine Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Zachariah, Zechariah.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest › the hand that works › to reveal, behold
To cut, to sustain of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest of the hand that works that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זְכַרְיָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
43 occurrences · 43 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and zechariah11 · 26%
- zechariah9 · 21%
- of zechariah7 · 16%
- of zachariah2 · 5%
- unto zechariah2 · 5%
- came unto zechariah2 · 5%
- and zachariah1 · 2%
- did zachariah1 · 2%
- degree, zechariah1 · 2%
- to him zechariah1 · 2%
- were, zechariah1 · 2%
- then for zechariah1 · 2%
- and to zechariah1 · 2%
- upon zechariah1 · 2%
- and for zechariah1 · 2%
- namely, zechariah1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.