Zechariah

  • [ zek-ə-RIE-ə (English) ]
  • Biblical, English
From the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zekharyah) meaning "YAHWEH remembers". This is the name of many characters in the Old Testament, including the prophet Zechariah, the author of the Book of Zechariah. The name also appears in the New Testament belonging to the father of John the Baptist, who was temporarily made dumb because of his disbelief. He is regarded as a saint by Christians. In some versions of the New Testament his name is spelled in the Greek form Zacharias or the English form Zachary. As an English given name, Zechariah has been in occasional use since the Protestant Reformation.

YAHWEH   male   Theology
A name of the Hebrew God, represented in Hebrew by the tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God, it was only written and never spoken, which resulted in the original pronunciation becoming lost. The name may have originally been derived from the old Semitic root הוה (hawah) meaning "to be" or "to become".
EQUIVALENTS
ARABIC: Zakaria, Zakariya, Zakariyya
BIBLICAL GREEK: Zacharias
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Zekharyah
BIBLICAL LATIN: Zaccharias
BIBLICAL: Zachariah, Zacharias, Zachary, Zechariah
BULGARIAN: Zahari
ENGLISH: Zachariah, Zachary, Zachery, Zackary, Zackery, Zechariah
FINNISH: Sakari
FRENCH: Zacharie
GEORGIAN: Zakaria
OLD CHURCH SLAVIC: Zaxaria
POLISH: Zachariasz
RUSSIAN: Zakhar
SCOTTISH: Sachairi
SPANISH: Zacarías
TURKISH: Zekeriya
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS
ENGLISH: Zac, Zach, Zack, Zak
FINNISH: Sakke, Saku
FEMININE FORMS
BULGARIAN: Zaharina, Zaharinka, Zara
MACEDONIAN: Zaharina, Zaharinka
OTHER FORMS
THEOLOGY: Yahweh