זִכְרִי
Zichri
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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 H2147 appears in the Book of Exodus — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Exodus
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 זכרי centers on the idea of “Zichri.” 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 6 of 12 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 12 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Exodus 6:21, it enters the text early. For the data behind this summary, explore 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2147 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 6 verses 50%
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 25%
- Nehemiah 2 verses 17%
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 12 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 verses · 92%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 8%
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: Zichri 12×
- American Standard Version: Zichri 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zichri 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zichri 7×, Zikri 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2147 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2147 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2147 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2147 across 12 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.
14 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 14 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. a Reubenite 1 Ch 27:16. e.g. 1 Chronicles 27:16
- 2. a Judahite 2 Ch 17:16. e.g. 2 Chronicles 17:16
- 3. Levites:
- a. Ex 6:21 (P). e.g. Exodus 6:21
- b. 1 Ch 26:25. e.g. 1 Chronicles 26:25
- c. an Asaphite 1 Ch 9:15 ‖ Ne 11:17 where read זכרי (for זַבְדִּי, q.v.); cf. also infr. זַכּוּר 3 b. e.g. 1 Chronicles 9:15
- 4. a priest Ne 12:17 (𝔊L Ζαχαριας). e.g. Nehemiah 12:17
- 5. Benjamites:
- a. 1 Ch 8:19. e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:19
- b. v 23. e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:23
- c. v 27. e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:27
- d. Ne 11:9. e.g. Nehemiah 11:9
- 6. father of a captain in Jehoiada’s time 2 Ch 23:1 (𝔊 Ζαχαρια, 𝔊L Ζεχρι). e.g. 2 Chronicles 23:1
- 7. mighty man of Ephraim 2 Ch 28:7 (𝔊 Ἐζεχρει, 𝔊L Ζαχαριας). e.g. 2 Chronicles 28:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. 𝔊 Ζεχρει, Ζαχρι, etc., except as below:—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זכר (zâkar) (H2142) — to remember.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H2147 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/זִכְרִ֖י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 8:19 | 3 |
| זִכְרִ֖י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 9:15 | 3 |
| זִכְרִ֑י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 27:16 | 2 |
| וְ/זִכְרִ֥י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:25 | 1 |
| וְ/זִכְרִֽי | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:21 | 1 |
| זִכְרִ֔י | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 17:16 | 1 |
| זִכְרִ֣י | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 28:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2147, 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
- אזכרה ʼazkârâh H234 memorial offering
- זכור zâkûwr H2138 male
- זכר zêker H2143 memorial
- זכר zâkâr H2145 male
- זכרון zikrôwn H2146 memorial
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 → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zichri). 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
Remembered; illustrious. (1.) A Benjamite chief (1 Chr. 8:19).
(2.) Another of the same tribe (1 Chr. 8:23).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(memorable).
+ Son of Ishar the son of Kohath. (Exodus 6:21) (B.C. 1401.) + A Benjamite of the sons of Shimhi. (1 Chronicles 8:19) (B.C. 1440.) + A Benjamite of the sons of Shashak. (1 Chronicles 8:23) + A Benjamite of the sons of Jeroham. (1 Chronicles 8:27) + Son of Asaph, elsewhere called Zabdi and ZACCUB. (1 Chronicles 9:15) + A descendant of Eliezer the son of Moses. (1 Chronicles 26:25) (B.C. before 1043.) + The father of Eliezer, the chief of the Reubenites in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 27:16) (B.C. before 1043.) + One of the tribe of Judah, father of Amasiah. (2 Chronicles 11:16) + Father of Elishaphat, one of the conspirators with Jehoiada. (2 Chronicles 23:1) (B.C. before 876.) + An Ephraimite hero in the invading army of Pekah the son of Remaliah. (2 Chronicles 28:7) (B.C. 734.) + Father or ancestor of Joel, 14. (Nehemiah 11:9) + A priest of the family of Abijah, in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua. (Nehemiah 12:17) (B.C. 480.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
that remembers; that is a man
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 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.
