Strong's #1296: Berekyah (pronounced beh-rek-yaw')

or Berekyahuw {beh-rek-yaw'-hoo}; from 1290 and 3050; knee (i.e. blessing) of Jah; Berekjah, the name of six Israelites:--Berachiah, Berechiah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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berekyâh / berekyâhû

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

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H1290 and H3050

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

1 Chronicles 3:20: "And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five."
1 Chronicles 6:39: "his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,"
1 Chronicles 9:16: "of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah,"
1 Chronicles 15:17: "his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren,"
1 Chronicles 15:23: " And Berechiah and Elkanah for the ark."
2 Chronicles 28:12: "of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah"
Nehemiah 3:4: "them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto"
Nehemiah 3:30: "him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber."
Nehemiah 6:18: "the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah."
Zechariah 1:1: "unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,"
Zechariah 1:7: "of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet,"