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Strong's #2608 - חֲנַנְיָה
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- Hananiah = "God has favoured"
- 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)
- one of the 14 sons of Heman and chief of the 16th course
- a general in the army of King Uzziah
- father of Zedekiah in the time of Jehoiakim
- son of Azur, a Benjamite of Gibeon and a false prophet in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah
- grandfather of Irijah, the captain of the ward at the gate of Benjamin who arrested Jeremiah on the charge of deserting to the Chaldeans
- a head of a Benjamite house
- son of Zerubbabel from whom Christ derived His descent also called ´Joanna´ by Luke
- one of the sons of Bebai who returned with Ezra from Babylon
- 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
- head of the priestly course of Jeremiah in the days of Joiakim
- 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
- Two post exilic Israelites
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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.
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.