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the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #5570 - סְנָאָה

Transliteration

Çᵉnâʼâh

Phonetics

sen-aw-aw'

Origin

from an unused root meaning to prick

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Senaah or Hassenaah [with the article] = "thorny"
1. ancestor of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

BSB (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

CSB (1)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

ESV (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

KJV (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

LEB (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

LSB (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

N95 (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

NAS (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

NLT (0)

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

WEB (3)

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 2

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

סְנָאָה apparently proper name, masculine׳בְּנֵי ס Ezra 2:35 = Nehemiah 7:38, ׳בְּנֵי הַסּ Nehemiah 3:3; ᵐ5 Σαανα, Σανανα(τ), etc., ᵐ5^L Σενναα; Mey^{Judenth. 150,154} reads סְנֻאָה (׳ס for ׳שׂ, compare סְנוּאָה) = sons of the hated (rejected) woman, i.e. the poorer classes of Jerusalem.

סְנוּאָה proper name, masculine (but see סְנָאָה); — ׳בֶּןהַֿסּ Nehemiah 11:9 (ᵐ5 Ασανα, ᵐ5^L Ασεννα), בֶּןהַֿסְּנֻאָה 1 Chronicles 9:7 (ᵐ5 Αανα, A Ασανουα, ᵐ5^L Σαανα).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

סְנָאָה [Senaah, Hassenaah], [“perhaps thorny”], pr.n. of a town of Judæa, Ezra 2:35; Nehemiah 7:38 with the art., Nehemiah 3:3.

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List of Word Forms

הַסְּנָאָ֑ה הסנאה סְנָאָ֔ה סנאה has·sə·nā·’āh hassənā’āh hassenaAh sə·nā·’āh sənā’āh senaAh