Brown Driver Briggs

 Berachiah or Berechiah = "Jehovah blesses"
1. a son of Zerubbabel
2. a Levite who returned for the exile
3. father of Meshullam, one of Nehemiah's chiefs who assisted in
rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem
4. father of Zechariah
5. a Gershonite Levite, the father of Asaph, the singer, doorkeeper
of the ark
6. an Ephraimite chief in the time of Ahaz