The name Zechariah, along with all of its variant spellings like Zachariah and Zacharias, is a theophoric name (contains the name of a deity) that comes from the Hebrew words זכר (zakar), meaning "to remember," and the shortened form of name of the Hebrew deity, יה (Yah), giving us "Yah(weh) remembers," or alternatively, "Remember Yah(weh)." There are a number of individuals with this name in the Bible. A king of Israel was named Zechariah (2 Kings 14:29; spelled זכריהו, or Zekaryahu, in 2 Kings 15:8). There was a gatekeeper at the entrence to the tent of meeting named Zechariah mentioned in 1 Chronicles 9:21. There was the well-known Hebrew prophet who authored the book of Zechariah. And Luke 1:5 describes the father of John the Baptist as Ζακαρίας (Zakarias) in Greek, which is typically rendered as Zechariah.