בֶּרֶכְיָה
Berachiah
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1296 appears — 11 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 5 verses
- 1 Chronicles 3:20 וּ/בֶרֶכְיָ֧ה conj + n Proper and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.
- 1 Chronicles 6:39 בֶּרֶכְיָ֖הוּ n Proper His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
- 1 Chronicles 9:16 וּ/בֶרֶכְיָ֤ה conj + n Proper and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
- 1 Chronicles 15:17 בֶּֽרֶכְיָ֑הוּ n Proper So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
- 1 Chronicles 15:23 וּ/בֶֽרֶכְיָה֙ conj + n Proper Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 3:4 בֶּרֶכְיָ֖ה n Proper Next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. Next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel. Next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
- Nehemiah 3:30 בֶּ֣רֶכְיָ֔ה n Proper After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another portion. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
- Nehemiah 6:18 בֶּֽרֶכְיָֽה n Proper For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 1:1 בֶּ֣רֶכְיָ֔ה n Proper 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 בֶּ֣רֶכְיָ֔הוּ n Proper 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,
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.
The Hebrew name ברכיה centers on the idea of “Berachiah.” First canonically at 1 Chronicles 3:20, it enters the text early. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 11 verses — uncommon. 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 5 of 11 verses. For the data behind this summary, explore 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1296 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 45%
- Nehemiah 3 verses 27%
- Zechariah 2 verses 18%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 82%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 18%
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: Berechiah 10×
- American Standard Version: Berechiah 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Berechiah 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Berechiah 8×, Berekiah 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1296 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1296 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1296 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1296 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
7 senses in BDB, in lexicon order
The 7 senses BDB 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.
- Berachiah or Berechiah = "Jehovah blesses"
- a son of Zerubbabel
- a Levite who returned for the exile
- father of Meshullam, one of Nehemiah's chiefs who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem
- father of Zechariah
- a Gershonite Levite, the father of Asaph, the singer, doorkeeper of the ark
- an Ephraimite chief in the time of Ahaz
Word origin
Derived from ברך (berek) (H1290) — knee.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H1296 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֶּ֣רֶכְיָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 3:30 | 2 |
| בֶּ֣רֶכְיָ֔הוּ | Noun, Proper | Zechariah 1:7 | 1 |
| בֶּֽרֶכְיָ֑הוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:17 | 1 |
| בֶּֽרֶכְיָֽה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 6:18 | 1 |
| בֶּרֶכְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 3:4 | 1 |
| בֶּרֶכְיָ֖הוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:39 | 1 |
| בֶּרֶכְיָ֣הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 28:12 | 1 |
| וּ/בֶֽרֶכְיָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:23 | 1 |
| וּ/בֶרֶכְיָ֤ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 9:16 | 1 |
| וּ/בֶרֶכְיָ֧ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1296, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Berachiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(blessed of Jehovah), a Gershonite Levite, father of Asaph. (1 Chronicles 6:39) [Berechiah]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
speaking well of the Lord
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
