Berechiah is a
Jewish
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name that occurs several times in the
Bible
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. It is derived from
Berakhah
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, "blessing".
People named Berechiah
In scripture
* the father of the Hebrew prophet
Zechariah and son of Iddo, according to , but probably not the prophet by the same name. In Isaiah 8:2, he is referred to by the longer form of the same name, Jeberechiah or Jeberekiah.
* son of Zerubbabel, according to and the
Seder Olam Zutta, was an
Exilarch
The exilarch was the leader of the Jewish community in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) during the era of the Parthians, Sasanians and Abbasid Caliphate up until the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, with intermittent gaps due to ongoing polit ...
in
Babylon
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Other people with that name
*
Berechiah ha-Nakdan, 13th century writer and fabulist
*
Berechiah de Nicole, also known as Benedict fil Mosse, a 13th-century Tosafist who lived at Lincoln, England
*
Berechiah Berak ben Isaac Eisik Shapira (died 1664), Galician preacher
References
External links
Entry in Bartelby Encyclopedia
{{Given name, cat=Hebrew masculine given names
Set index articles on Hebrew Bible people
Masculine given names