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Zachary m

English form (pre-dating the Authorized Version) of the New Testament Greek name Zacharias, a form of Hebrew ZECHARIAH (SEE Zechariah). In the New Testament it is the name of the father of John the Baptist, who underwent a temporary period of dumbness for his lack of faith (Luke 1), and of a more obscure figure, Zacharias son of Barachias, who was slain ‘between the temple and the altar’ (Matthew 23: 35; Luke 11: 51). Like many biblical names, it is now out of fashion, although in the United States it is familiar as the name of a 19th-century president, Zachary Taylor. In the Highlands of Scotland it has been used as an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name SGÀIRE (SEE Sgàire).

Variants: Zacharias, Zachariah, ZECHARIAH (SEE Zechariah).