זֶ֫כֶר
Zacher
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2144 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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 1 verse
About this entry
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זכר — transliterated Zeker — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Zacher.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. Found nowhere else but 1 Chronicles 8:31. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
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Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2144 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Zacher 1×
- American Standard Version: Zecher 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zecher 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zeker 1×
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Senses in BDB
The 2 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.
- Zacher = "remembrance"
- a Gibeonite
Word origin
[ זֶ֫כֶר ] n.pr.m. only 1 Ch 8:31
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זכר (zêker) (H2143) — memorial.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זָכַר
- [to mark,] to remember, mention; to celebrate (by a ceremony &c.). Pes. 106ᵃ (ref. to Ex. XX, 8 זכור) זָכְרֵהוּ על היין Ms. M. (ed. זוֹכְרֵהוּ) remember the Sabbath (distinguish it) by a benediction over wine; Bets. 15ᵇ זכרהו מֵאַחֵר שבא וכ׳ mark the Sabbath (by a ceremony) from another (Holy Day) which (preceding the Sabbath) may cause the neglect of it (Ms. M. לאחר, Rashi מֵאַחַר, v. אַחַר; v. R. Nissim a. l.). Men. 43ᵇ ראה … וזְכוֹר וכ׳ see this ceremony and be reminded of another &c.; a. fr.—Part. pass. זָכוּר, f. זְכוּרָה a) reminded, remembering, mindful.—ז׳ אני, contr. זְכוּרַנִי I recollect. Sabb. 115ᵃ ז׳ אני ב־ I recollect about &c.—Bets. 18ᵃ ז׳ היא she will remember. Snh. 52ᵇ; a. fr.—b) thought of, remembered. B. Mets. 11ᵃ ז׳ ולבסוף שכוח if the sheaf had been thought of and was afterwards forgotten.—ז׳ לטוב (abbr. ז"ל) remembered for blessing. Gen. R. s. 16 end אליהו ז"ל El. of blessed memory, v. זִכָּרוֹן.—Sabb. 13ᵇ, a. e., v. בְּרַם; a. fr.—Pl. זְכוּרִים. Pesik. R. s. 13, end; a. e. e.g. Exodus 20:8
- to be reminded, to remember (with accus.). Pes. 66ᵃ; Snh. 82ᵃ ראה מעשה ונ׳ הלכה he saw the practice and recalled the tradition. Yoma 38ᵃ כביד אבותי נִזְכַּרְתִּי I was thinking of the vanished glory of my ancestors. Ex. R. s. 45 הִזָּכֵר remember; a. fr.
- 1. to cause to be remembered, to recall. Ber. 55ᵃ, a. e. ג׳ דברים מַזְכִּירִים וכ׳ three occasions cause the sins of man to be remembered; a. fr.
- 2. to cite (as an argument), to take into account. Ib. 60ᵃ; a. e. אין מזכירין מ"נ miracles must not be cited as evidence. Kidd. 40ᵇ אין מזכירין לו שוב רשעו his wickedness is not counted; a. fr.
- 3. to recite (in prayer), quote. Hor. 14ᵃ ושמותם אין אנו מז׳ whose names we do not quote (as authorities). Ber. I, 5 מזכירין י"מ וכ׳ we must recite the going out from Egypt (Num. XV, 37 to 41) in night prayers; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 15:37
- to be mentioned. Kel. XVII, 5. Toh. VI, 6; a. e.—Part. מוּזְכָּר, f. מוּזְכֶּרֶת clearly defined. Kidd. 77ᵃ
זָכָר
- preced.) [v. זָכוּר,]
- 1. male (of man and animals), male child; opp. נקבה. Nidd. III, 7 תשב לז׳ וכ׳ she shall observe the laws as after the birth of a male child &c. (Lev. XII, 4). Ib. בריית הז׳ the formation of the male embryo. Y. B. Bath. IX, 16ᵈ bot. שמחת ז׳ the rejoicing over the birth of a boy; a. v. fr.—Pl. זְכָרִים. Nidd. 31ᵇ. Zeb. V, 3, a. fr. זִכְרֵי כהונה the male members of the priestly tribe.—Gen. R. s. 13, a. e. המים העליונים ז׳ וכ׳ the waters from above are the males (fructifiers), &c. e.g. Leviticus 12:4
- 2. (v. דְּכַר II) (של רחלים) ז׳ the male of the flock, ram. Bekh. V, 3; Yeb. 121ᵇ.—Shek. V, 3 ז׳ משמש עם וכ׳ that with the inscription ‘male’ was used only for libations connected with rams.—Pl. as above. R. Hash. III, 4, sq. בשל ז׳ with horns of rams; a. fr.
- 3. membrum (of animals). Tosef. Bekh. IV, 6, v. זוּבָּן.
- 4. (of inanimate objects) the thinner, pointed side of a double tool, v. זַכְרוּת. Kel. XIII, 2 הז׳ the pointed side of the cosmetic tube, contrad. to כף the broad part.
- 5. the marrow of horns, reeds &c. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. VII, 12. [Ib. Par. II (I), 2, v. זַכְרוּת.]
- 6. (gramm.) לשון ז׳ masculine gender. Kidd. 2ᵇ אשכחן דרך דאיקרי ל׳ ז׳ we find (in the Bible) derekh in the masculine gender. Mekh. B’shall., Shirah 1 בל׳ ז׳ in the masculine form (שִׁיר); Cant. R. to I, 5; a. e.
זֵכֶר
- memorial, remembrance, symbol, mnemonical allusion. Succ. III, 12 ז׳ למקדש as a reminiscence of the Temple usages; Pes. 115ᵃ. Ib. 116ᵃ ז׳ לתפוח typical of the apple tree (Cant. VIII, 5; v. Sot. 11ᵇ); ז׳ לטיט typical of the clay (which the Israelites had to tread). Ber. 2ᵇ; Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 4, a. e. אע"פ שאין … ז׳ לדבר although there is no proof for it (in the Bible), there is a mnemonical allusion to it; a. fr. e.g. Song of Solomon 8:5
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zacher). 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
Memorial, a son of Jehiel (1 Chr. 8:31; 9:35); called Zechariah (9:37).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(memorial), one of the sons of Jehiel, the father or founder of Gibeon, by his wife Maachah. (1 Chronicles 8:31) (B.C. about 1450.)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
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