H1296

Berekyah

beh-rek-yaw'

Proper Name Masculine

or Berekyahuw {beh-rek-yaw'-hoo}; from H1290 and H3050; knee (i.e. blessing) of Jah; Berekjah, the name of six Israelites:--Berachiah, Berechiah.

Berachiah or Berechiah = "Jehovah blesses"

1. a son of Zerubbabel
2. a Levite who returned for the exile
3. father of Meshullam, one of Nehemiah's chiefs who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem
4. father of Zechariah
5. a Gershonite Levite, the father of Asaph, the singer, doorkeeper of the ark
6. an Ephraimite chief in the time of Ahaz