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Zacher in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(memorial), one of the sons of Jehiel, the father or founder of Gibeon, by his wife Maachah. 1Ch 8:31 (B.C. about 1450.)...

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Zaccur in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Father of Shammua the Reubenite spy (Numbers 13:4). 2. A Merarite Levite, son of Jaaziah (1 Chronicles 24:27). 3. Son of Asaph (1 Chronicles 25:2; 1 Chronicles 25:10); "prophesied according to the order of the king"; over the third division of the temple choir (Nehemiah 12:35). 4. Son of Imri; aided at the wall (Nehemiah 3:2). 5. A Lev...

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Zacharias in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zak-a-ri'-as (Zacharias): (1) One of the "rulers of the temple" at the time of Josiah's Passover (1 Esdras 1:8) = "Zechariah" of 2 Ch 35:8. (2) One of the "holy singers" at Josiah's Passover (1 Esdras 1:15); the name stands in place of "Heman" in 2 Ch 35:15. (3) In 1 Esdras 6:1; 7:3 = the prophet Zechariah. (4) One of the sons of Pharos who retur...

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Zacher in Easton's Bible Dictionary

memorial, a son of Jehiel (1 Chr. 8:31; 9:35); called Zechariah (9:37)....

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Zaccur in Hitchcock's Bible Names

of the male kind; mindful...

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Zacharias in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A man who was killed by the Jews Referred to by Jesus Mt 23:35; Lu 11:51 -2. The father of John the Baptist Lu 1:5-80; 3:2 See ELISABETH See JOHN THE BAPTIST...

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Zacher in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

One of Jehiel's sons (1 Chronicles 8:31). In 1 Chronicles 9:37, Zechariah....

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Zachariah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zak-a-ri'-a (Zacharias; the King James Version, Zacharias): (1) The son of Barachiah, who, Jesus says, was slain between the temple and the altar (Mt 23:35; Lk 11:51). The allusion seems to be to the murder of Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada (2 Ch 24:20 ff). In this case "Barachiah" would seem to be a gloss which has crept into the text through ...

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Zacharias in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(Greek form of Zechariah). 1. Father of John the Baptist. Lu 1:5 etc. He was a priest of the course of Abia. the eighth of the twenty-four courses who ministered at the temple in turn. He probably lived at Hebron. His wife's name was Elisabeth. John was born to them in their old age, and the promise of this son was communicated to Zacharias b...

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Zadok in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

za'-dok (tsadowq, once tsadhoq (1 Ki 1:26), similar to tsaddiq, and tsadduq, post-Biblical, meaning justus, "righteous"; Septuagint Sadok): Cheyne in Encyclopedia Biblica suggests that Zadok was a modification of a Gentilic name, that of the Zidkites the Negeb, who probably derived their appellation from the root ts-d-q, a secondary title of ...

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