Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ζαχαρίᾱς • ‎(Zakharíās) m ‎(genitive Ζαχαρίου); first declension

1. Zechariah
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 9.169

Inflection

Descendants

• English:
  • Zacharias
  • Zachariah (influenced by Zechariah)
  • Zachary; Zach; Zack
• Greek: Ζαχαρίας ‎(Zacharías)
• Latin: Zacharias

Usage notes

While some sources refer to the Old Testament figure as Zechariah and the New Testament figure as Zacharias, the Greek makes no distinction between the two. Also note that Ζαχαρίας has no accentuation in the LXX.

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2197”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• NA27