Berechiah

Berechiah is a Jewish name that occurs several times in the Bible. It is derived from Berakhah, "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 in Babylon

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