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Meaning and etymology of the name Zacharias
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Zacharias 
Zacharias is the husband of Elizabeth and father of John the Baptist (Luke 1:5). Zacharias was a Levite priest of the division of Abijah (1 Chronicles 24:10). He made Biblical history when the archangel Gabriel met him in the temple, and Zacherias assumed that Gabriel had come down from heaven for the sole purpose of pulling Zacherias' leg. Gabriel, not amused, struck Zacherias with muteness until his prophesies would be fulfilled. Of Elizabeth it is said that she was "of the daughters of Aaron" without further distinction. She was, however, a kinswoman of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
There is only one Zacharias in the Bible and that is curious. The name Zacharias is the Greek transliteration of the extremely popular Hebrew name  , Zechariah. This name consists of two parts. The ending of the name is  , the abbreviated form of the Name of the Lord:  (YHWH). The first part of the name Zacherias was taken from the verb  (zakar), meaning to think about or meditate upon, remember, recollect, and hence declare, recite, proclaim etc. Derivation (zeker) means remembrance. Hence the name Zacherias means Yah Remembers.
But an identical meaning of this verb lies in the two derivations , namely the words (zakar) and  (zakur), both meaning male.
Zacharias' meeting with Gabriel becomes extra special when we realize that the name Zacharias also means Yah's Male while Gabriel means God's Guy. The names Gabriel and Zacheriah seem to express the same idea.
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