Ζαχαρίας
Zacharias
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
4 verses where G2197 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
- Luke 1:5 Ζαχαρίας n nom sg masc There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
- Luke 1:12 Ζαχαρίας n nom sg masc Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.
- Luke 1:18 Ζαχαρίας n nom sg masc Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
- Luke 1:67 Ζαχαρίας n nom sg masc His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Zacharias” is the headline sense of the Greek name Ζαχαριας (Zacharías). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Luke. It appears 11 verses across 2 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 23:35. See 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2197 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 11 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 10 verses · 91%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Zacharias 11×
- American Standard Version: Zacharias 9×, Zachariah 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zechariah 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zechariah 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2197 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2197 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2197 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2197 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Zacharias meaning "remembered of Jehovah"
- the father of John the Baptist
- son of Barachias, who was slain by the Jews between the altar and the temple
Word origin
Derived from זכריה (Zᵉkaryâh) (H2148) — Zechariah.
Of hebrew origin [ H2148 ]; Zacharias (that is Zechariah ) the name of two Israelites : - Zacharias.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2197 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ζαχαρίας Zacharías | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 1:5 | 4 |
| Ζαχαρίου Zacharíou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 23:35 | 4 |
| Ζαχαρίαν Zacharían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 1:21 | 2 |
| Ζαχαρία Zacharía | Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 1:13 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zacharias). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
(1.) A priest of the course of Abia, the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which the priests had been originally divided by David (1 Chr. 23:1-19). Only four of these courses or "families" of the priests returned from the Exile (Ezra 2:36-39); but they were then re-distributed under the old designations. The priests served at the temple twice each year, and only for a week each time. Zacharias's time had come for this service. During this period his home would be one of the chambers set apart for the priests on the sides of the temple ground. The offering of incense was one of the most solemn parts of the daily worship of the temple, and lots were drawn each day to determine who should have this great honour, an honour which no priest could enjoy more than once during his lifetime.
While Zacharias ministered at the golden altar of incense in the holy place, it was announced to him by the angel Gabriel that his wife Elisabeth, who was also of a priestly family, now stricken in years, would give birth to a son who was to be called John, and that he would be the forerunner of the long-expected Messiah (Luke 1:12-17). As a punishment for his refusing to believe this message, he was struck dumb and "not able to speak until the day that these things should be performed" (20). Nine months passed away, and Elisabeth's child was born, and when in answer to their inquiry Zacharias wrote on a "writing tablet," "His name is John," his mouth was opened, and he praised God (60-79). The child (John the Baptist), thus "born out of due time," "waxed strong in spirit" (1:80).
(2.) The "son of Barachias," mentioned as having been slain between the temple and the altar (Matt. 23:35; Luke 11:51). "Barachias" here may be another name for Jehoiada, as some think. (See ZECHARIAH.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(Greek form of Zechariah).
+ Father of John the Baptist. (Luke 1:5) etc. He was a priest of the course of Abia. the eighth of the twenty-four courses who ministered at the temple in turn. He probably lived at Hebron. His wife's name was Elisabeth. John was born to them in their old age, and the promise of this son was communicated to Zacharias by an angel while he was offering incense and praying in the temple. + Son of Barachias, who, our Lord says, was slain by the Jews between the altar and the temple. (Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:61) There has been much dispute who this Zacharias was. Many of the Greek fathers have maintained that the father of John the Baptist is the person to whom our Lord alludes but there can be little or no doubt that the allusion is to Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, (2 Chronicles 24:20,21) and he may have been called "the son" of Barachias from his grandfather. (B.C. 838.) He is mentioned as being the martyr last recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures (as Abel was the first) -d Chronicles being the last book in their canon.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Ζαχαριας appears 34 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 34 verses in 7 books.
- 34
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 34
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Kings 15:8 ζαχαριας
- 1 Chronicles 9:21 ζαχαριας
- 2 Chronicles 17:7 ζαχαριας
- Ezra 5:1 ζαχαριας
- Psalms 145:1 ζαχαριας
- Isaiah 8:2 ζαχαριας
- Zechariah 1:1 ζαχαριας
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2197) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Kings 15:8 ζαχαριας In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
- 2 Kings 15:11 ζαχαριας Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 18:2 ζαχαριας He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
- 1 Chronicles 9:21 ζαχαριας Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.
- 1 Chronicles 15:18 ζαχαριας and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
- 1 Chronicles 15:20 ζαχαριας and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth;
- 1 Chronicles 16:5 ζαχαριας Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
- 1 Chronicles 26:2 ζαχαριας Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
- 1 Chronicles 26:11 ζαχαριας Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
- 1 Chronicles 26:14 ζαχαριας The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
- 2 Chronicles 17:7 ζαχαριας Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
- 2 Chronicles 20:14 ζαχαριας Then on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of Yahweh in the midst of the assembly;
- 2 Chronicles 21:2 ζαχαριας He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 23:1 ζαχαριας In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
- 2 Chronicles 26:5 ζαχαριας He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him to prosper.
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 ζαχαριας Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
- 2 Chronicles 29:13 ζαχαριας and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
- 2 Chronicles 34:12 ζαχαριας The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.
- 2 Chronicles 35:8 ζαχαριας His princes gave for a freewill-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.
- Ezra 5:1 ζαχαριας Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel [prophesied they] to them.
- Ezra 8:3 ζαχαριας Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.
- Ezra 18:4 ζαχαριας
- Ezra 22:16 ζαχαριας
- Ezra 22:35 ζαχαριας
- Ezra 22:41 ζαχαριας
- Psalms 145:1 ζαχαριας I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
- Psalms 146:1 ζαχαριας Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.
- Psalms 147:1 ζαχαριας Praise Yah, For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
- Psalms 148:1 ζαχαριας Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!
- Isaiah 8:2 ζαχαριας and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
- Zechariah 1:1 ζαχαριας In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
- Zechariah 1:7 ζαχαριας On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
- Zechariah 7:1 ζαχαρίας It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
- Zechariah 7:8 ζαχαριας The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2197) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
