Berachah
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Berachah [1]
(Heb. Berakah', בְּרָכָה, a blessing) , the name of a valley and also of a man.
1. (Sept. translates εὐλογία .) A valley in the direction of Tekoa, so called as being the place where Jehoshaphat celebrated the miraculous overthrow of the Moabites and Ammonites ( 2 Chronicles 20:26). It is still called Wady Bereikut, near the ruined village of the same name south of Tekua (Robinson's Researches, 2, 189), first identified by Wolcott ( Biblioth. Sac. 1843, p. 43; comp. Wilson, Lands of Bible,, 1, 386). (See Jeruel); (See Caphar-Barucha).
2. (Sept. Βερχία .) One of the thirty Benjamite warriors, "Saul's brethren," who joined David while in retirement at Ziklag ( 1 Chronicles 12:3). B.C. 1054.
