<strong>ZICHRI</strong> <strong>zĭk’ rī</strong> (<span class="hebrew">זִכְרִֽי</span>, meaning derived from the root <em>remember</em>, perhaps <em>remembrance, mindful</em>), a personal, family, tribal name widely used in the OT. 1. A Levite, of the sub-group of Kohath of the house of Izhar (<bibleref ref="Exod.6.21">Exod 6:21</bibleref>).<br /><br />

2. A Benjaminite, descended from Shimei (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.19">1 Chron 8:19</bibleref>).

3. A Benjaminite, descended from Shashak (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.23">8:23</bibleref>).

4. A Benjaminite descended from Jehoram (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.27">8:27</bibleref>).

5. A Benjaminite in the days of Nehemiah whose son Joel was overseer of the Benjaminites (<bibleref ref="Neh.11.9">Neh 11:9</bibleref>).<br /><br />

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7. A Levite, descended from Moses’ son Eliezer, and father of Shelomoth (<bibleref ref="1Chr.26.25">1 Chron 26:25</bibleref>).

8. A Reubenite whose son Eliezer was one of David’s tribal leaders (<bibleref ref="1Chr.27.16">27:16</bibleref>).

9. A man of Judah, father of Amasiah a “volunteer for the service of Yahweh” (<bibleref ref="2Chr.17.16">2 Chron 17:16</bibleref>) in the days of Jehoshaphat.

10. A man of Judah whose son Elishaphat was a military leader in the days of Jehoiada the high priest who was involved in the plot which overthrew Athaliah and reinstated the boy Joash as king in Judah (<bibleref ref="2Chr.23.1">2 Chron 23:1</bibleref>).

11. A mighty man of Ephraim in the army of Pekah the king of Israel who slew Maaseiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah and two of the king’s officers when Pekah attacked Judah in company with Rezin king of Damascus (<bibleref ref="2Chr.28.7">2 Chron 28:7</bibleref>).

12. A priest of the house of Abijah in the days of the high priest Joiakim, father of the Eliashib of Nehemiah’s day (<bibleref ref="Neh.12.17">Neh 12:17</bibleref>).<br /><br />

<h2>International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)</h2>

(zikhri, meaning uncertain):<br /><br />

(1) Levites:<br /><br />

(a) grandson of Kohath (<bibleref ref="Exod.6.21">Ex 6:21</bibleref>, where some the <span class="auto-link">[[King James Version]]</span> editions read wrongly, "Zithri");

(b) an Asaphite (<bibleref ref="1Chr.9.15">1Ch 9:15</bibleref>), called "Zabdi" in <bibleref ref="Neh.11.17">Ne 11:17</bibleref>, where the Septuagint’s Codex Alexandrinus has Zechri = Zichri, but the Septuagint’s Codex Vaticanus other names; see [[Zabdi]], (4);

(c) a descendant of Eliezer (<bibleref ref="1Chr.26.25">1Ch 26:25</bibleref>).

(2) Benjamites:<br /><br />

(a) <bibleref ref="1Chr.8.19">1Ch 8:19</bibleref>;

(b) <bibleref ref="1Chr.8.23">1Ch 8:23</bibleref>;

(c) <bibleref ref="1Chr.8.27">1Ch 8:27</bibleref>;

(d) <bibleref ref="Neh.11.9">Ne 11:9</bibleref>.

(3) Father of Eliezer, who was one of David’s tribal princes (<bibleref ref="1Chr.27.16">1Ch 27:16</bibleref>).

(4) Father of Amasiah, "who willingly offered himself unto Yahweh" (<bibleref ref="2Chr.17.16">2Ch 17:16</bibleref>).

(5) Father of Elishaphat, a captain in Jehoiada’s time (<bibleref ref="2Chr.23.1">2Ch 23:1</bibleref>).

(6) "A mighty man of Ephraim," who when fighting under Pekah slew the son of Ahaz, the king of Judah (<bibleref ref="2Chr.28.7">2Ch 28:7</bibleref>).

(7) A priest in the days of Joiakim (<bibleref ref="Neh.12.17">Ne 12:17</bibleref>); the section, <bibleref ref="Neh.12.14-Neh.12.21">Ne 12:14-21</bibleref>, is omitted by the Septuagint’s Codex Vaticanus with the exception of "of Maluchi" (12:14); Lucian has Zacharias.