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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #2608 - חֲנַנְיָה

Transliteration

Chănanyâh

Phonetics

khan-an-yaw', khan-an-yaw'-hoo

Origin

from (H2603) and (H3050)

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Hananiah = "God has favoured"
1. the godly friend of Daniel whom Nebuchadnezzar renamed Shadrach; one of the three friends who with Daniel refused to make themselves unclean by eating food from the king´s table which went against the dietary laws which God had given the Jews; also one of the three who were thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow down to a graven image of Nebuchadnezzar and who were saved by the angel of the Lord. See also, ´Shadrach´ (Strong's #7714 or Strong's #7715)
2. one of the 14 sons of Heman and chief of the 16th course
3. a general in the army of King Uzziah
4. father of Zedekiah in the time of Jehoiakim
5. son of Azur, a Benjamite of Gibeon and a false prophet in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah
6. grandfather of Irijah, the captain of the ward at the gate of Benjamin who arrested Jeremiah on the charge of deserting to the Chaldeans
7. a head of a Benjamite house
8. son of Zerubbabel from whom Christ derived His descent also called ´Joanna´ by Luke
9. one of the sons of Bebai who returned with Ezra from Babylon
  1. a priest, one of the makers of the sacred ointments and incense, who built a portion of the wall of Jerusalem in the days of Nehemiah
  2. head of the priestly course of Jeremiah in the days of Joiakim
  3. ruler of the palace at Jerusalem under Nehemiah and also, along with Hanani, the Tirshatha´s brother, entrusted with the arrangements of guarding the gates of Jerusalem
  4. Two post exilic Israelites

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (29)

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 6

Jeremiah 11

Daniel 5

BSB (29)

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 6

Jeremiah 11

Daniel 5

CSB (29)

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 6

Jeremiah 11

Daniel 5

ESV (29)

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 6

Jeremiah 11

Daniel 5

KJV (29)

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 6

Jeremiah 11

Daniel 5

LEB (29)

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 6

Jeremiah 11

Daniel 5

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (29)

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 6

Jeremiah 11

Daniel 5

ASV (29)

and hananiah 5

and to hananiah 1

hananiah 11

now, hananiah 1

of hananiah 4

so hananiah 1

that hananiah 2

then hananiah 1

to hananiah 2

unto hananiah 1

BSB (29)

along with hananiah 1

and hananiah 2

hananiah 20

of hananiah 4

to hananiah 2

CSB (29)

hananiah 27

hananiah's 1

hananiahof 1

ESV (29)

hananiah 29

KJV (29)

hananiah 29

LEB (29)

and hananiah 4

hananiah 20

that hananiah 1

then hananiah 2

to hananiah 2

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (29)

and hananiah 4

and to hananiah 1

hananiah 11

of hananiah 4

so hananiah 1

that hananiah 2

then hananiah 1

to hananiah 3

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

חֲנַנְיָ֫הוּ, חֲנַנְיָה proper name, masculine (׳י hath been gracious) — ᵐ5 Ἀνανίας; חֲנַנְיָהוּ: (compare חנניהו on Israel. Seal, Ganneau^{Jas Fev-Mars 1883,128, No.1}) —

1 father of a prince under Jehoiakim Jeremiah 36:12.

2 captain of Uzziah's army 2 Chronicles 26:11.

3 chief of one of the divisions musicians of David 1 Chronicles 25:23 = חֲנַנְיָה 1 Chronicles 25:4. — חֲנַנְיָה:

4 a false prophet of Jeremiah's time Jeremiah 28:1,5,10,11,12,13,15 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 28:17.

5 one of the three companions of Daniel Daniel 1:6,7,11,19.

6 grandfather of an officer of the guard in Jeremiah's time Jeremiah 37:13.

7 a son of Zerubbabel 1 Chronicles 3:19,21.

8 a Benjamite 1 Chronicles 8:24.

9 various post-exilic persons.

a. Ezra 10:28.

b. Nehemiah 3:8.

c. Nehemiah 3:30.

d. Nehemiah 7:2.

e. Nehemiah 10:24.

f. Nehemiah 12:12,41.

חֲנַנְיָה proper name, masculine (= Biblical Hebrew id. 5); — Daniel 2:17.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

חֲנַנְיָה [and ׳הוּ] (“whom Jehovah gave”), [Hananiah], Greek Ἀνανίας, pr.n.

(1) of a false prophet, cotemporary with Jeremiah, Jeremiah 28:1, seq.

(2) of a companion of Daniel, afterwards called Shadrach, Daniel 1:6, also of others.

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List of Word Forms

וְ֠לַחֲנַנְיָה וְלַֽחֲנַנְיָה֙ וַחֲנַנְיָ֔ה וַחֲנַנְיָ֥ה וחנניה ולחנניה חֲנַנְיָ֑ה חֲנַנְיָ֔ה חֲנַנְיָ֔הוּ חֲנַנְיָ֖ה חֲנַנְיָ֖הוּ חֲנַנְיָ֛ה חֲנַנְיָ֜ה חֲנַנְיָ֣ה חֲנַנְיָ֤ה חֲנַנְיָ֥ה חֲנַנְיָֽה׃ חֲנַנְיָה֩ חנניה חנניה׃ חנניהו לַחֲנַנְיָ֔הוּ לחנניהו chananYah chananYahu ḥă·nan·yā·hū ḥă·nan·yāh ḥănanyāh ḥănanyāhū la·ḥă·nan·yā·hū lachananYahu laḥănanyāhū vachananYah velachananYah wa·ḥă·nan·yāh waḥănanyāh wə·la·ḥă·nan·yāh wəlaḥănanyāh