Berechiah is a Jewish name that occurs several times in the Bible. It is derived from Berakhah, "blessing". People named Berechiah In scripture the father of the Hebrew prophet Zechariah and son of Iddo, according to , but probably not the prophet by the same name. In Isaiah 8:2, he is referred to by the longer form of the same name, Jeberechiah or Jeberekiah. son of Zerubbabel, according to and the Seder Olam Zutta, was an Exilarch in Babylon Other people with that name Berechiah ha-Nakdan, 13th century writer and fabulist Berechiah de Nicole, also known as Benedict fil Mosse, a 13th-century Tosafist who lived at Lincoln, England. Berechiah Berak ben Isaac Eisik Shapira (died 1664), Galician preacher. References External links Entry in Bartelby Encyclopedia Set index articles on Hebrew Bible people