Strong's Lexicon
Zacharias: Zacharias
Original Word:Ζαχαρίας
Part of Speech:Noun, Masculine
Transliteration:Zacharias
Pronunciation:zah-khah-REE-as
Phonetic Spelling:(dzakh-ar-ee'-as)
Definition:Zacharias
Meaning:Zechariah, (a) a priest referred to as a son of Jehoiada, (b) another priest, father of John the Baptist.
Word Origin:Derived from the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zekharyah), meaning "Yahweh remembers."
Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: - H2148 זְכַרְיָה (Zekharyah) - "Yahweh remembers."
Usage:In the New Testament, Zacharias is primarily used to refer to two individuals:
- Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the division of Abijah.
- Zacharias, son of Barachiah, mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 23:35.
Cultural and Historical Background: - Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, lived during the time of Herod the Great. He was a priest serving in the temple in Jerusalem. His account is significant in the Gospel of Luke, where he is visited by the angel Gabriel and told that he and his wife Elizabeth would have a son, John, who would prepare the way for the Lord (Luke 1:5-25).
- The name Zacharias was common among Jews, reflecting the hope and remembrance of God's promises. The priestly role of Zacharias highlights the importance of temple worship and the anticipation of the Messiah.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originof Hebrew origin
ZekaryahDefinitionZacharias, the father of John the Baptist, Zechariah, the son of Barachiah
NASB TranslationZacharias (9), Zechariah (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2197: ΖαχαρίαςΖαχαρίας,
Ζαχαριου,
ὁ (
זְכַרְיָה and
זְכַריָהוּ i. e. whom Jehovah remembered),
Zacharias or
Zachariah or
Zechariah;
1. a priest, the father of John the Baptist:Luke 1:5, 12f, 18, 21, 40, 59, 67;Luke 3:2.
2. a prophet, the son of Jehoiada the priest, who was stoned to death in the middle of theninth century before Christ in the court of the temple:2 Chronicles 24:19ff;Matthew 23:35;Luke 11:51. Yet this Zachariah is called in Matthew, the passage cited the son not of Jehoiada but of Barachiah. But most interpreters now think (and correctly) that the Evangelist confounded him with that more noted Zachariah the prophet who lived a little after the exile, and was the son of Barachiah (cf.Zechariah 1:1), and whose prophecies have a place in the canon. For Christ, to prove that the Israelites throughout their sacred history had been stained with the innocent blood of righteous men, adduced the first and the last example of the murders committed on good men; for the books of the Chronicles stand last in the Hebrew canon. But opinions differ about this Zachariah. For according to an ancient tradition, which the Greek church follows (and which has been adopted by Chr. W. Müller in the Theol. Studien und Kritiken for 1841, p. 673ff, and formerly by Hilgenfeld, krit. Untersuchungen üb. die Evangg. Justins, etc., p. 155 and die Evangg. nach ihrer Entstehung, p. 100), Zachariah the father of John the Baptist is meant (cf. Protevangelium Jacobi,c. 23); others think (so quite recentlyKeim, iii. 184 (English translation, see 218), cf. Weiss, das Matthäusevang., p. 499) a certain Zachariah son of Baruch (according to another readingΒαρισκαιου), who during the war between the Jews and the Romans was slain by the zealotsἐνμέσῳτῷἱερῷ, asJosephus,b. j. 4, 5, 4 relates. Those who hold this opinion believe, either that Jesus divinely predicted this murder and in the prophetic style saidἐφονεύσατε forφονευσετε (cf.Buttmann, § 137, 4;Winers Grammar, 273 (256) n.; § 40, 5 b.), or that the Evangelist, writing after the destruction of Jerusalem, by an anachronism put this murder into the discourse of Jesus. These inventions are fully refuted by Fritzsche on Matthew, the passage cited, and Bleek, Erklär. der drei ersten Evangg. ii., p. 177ff; cf. Hilgenfeld, Einl. in d. N. T., p. 487f; (and Dr. James Morison, Commentary on Matthew, the passage cited;B. D., underZechariah 6, and underZechariah 11).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Zacharias.Of Hebrew origin (Zkaryah); Zacharias (i.e. Zechariah), the name of two Israelites -- Zacharias.
see HEBREWZkaryah
Forms and Transliterations
Ζαχαρια Ζαχαρία Ζαχαριαν Ζαχαρίαν Ζαχαριας Ζαχαρίας Ζαχαριου Ζαχαρίου Zacharia Zacharía Zacharian Zacharían Zacharias Zacharías Zachariou ZacharíouLinks
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