Berechiah

Also called Berachiah

Mentioned in 1041 BC traditional (Jones)

Son of Shimea, and father of Asaph the musician (1 Chr. 6:39; 15:17).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Shimea
Child: Asaph
Tagged in: 3 verses

The 37th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
Mentioned in the era of the Kingdom, 1050–587 BC.
Named in the same verses as Asaph, Elkanah, Heman, Jeduthun, Joel, Kishi, Merari, and Shimea.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1066–1016 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

3 tagged verses in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

1 Chronicles3

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Berechiah 12Berachiah 0
KJV	Berechiah 10Berachiah 1
ASV	Berechiah 11Berachiah 0

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 3 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Chronicles3 verses

6:39
Heman’s kinsman was Asaph, who served at his right hand: Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
15:17
So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
15:23
Berechiah and Elkanah were to be guardians of the ark.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.