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Zechariah (disambiguation)

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Zechariah (Hebrew, God has remembered), or Zachariah or Zacharias (whence the modern name Zachary) is the name of many men in the Old Testament and the New. The most famous uses are as the names of:

  1. King Zachariah of the Northern Kingdom, son of Jeroboam II
  2. Zechariah son of Jehoiada, an important priest of the Southern Kingdom during the reigns of Ahaziah and Joash
  3. Zechariah, father of Abi and grandfather of King Jehoahaz I
  4. A named prophet and author of an important message with eschatological implications
  5. Zacharias, a New Testament Levite and father of John the Baptist

This name also appears as the name of:

  1. A son of Jehoshaphat, killed by his brother Jehoram
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