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Zechariah

Hebrew prophet
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Also spelled:
Zacharias
Flourished:
6th century bc

Zechariah (flourished 6th century bc) was a Jewish prophet whose preachings are recorded in one of the shorter prophetical books in the Old Testament, the Book of Zechariah (q.v.).

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