Zacharias

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Zacharias in the Bible, the father of John the Baptist, to whom the archangel Gabriel foretold his son's birth; Zacharias from that moment was unable to speak until the moment when the child was to be named, and he wrote the words ‘His name is John’ (Luke 1:63).

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Zacharias

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Zacharias Variant spelling of Zechariah

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