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# חָנָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2605

**Canan** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Canan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2605/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָנָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2605/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (gracious; cf. Sab. חנן, Ph. חנא)— one of the warriors of David 1 Ch 11:43. one of the heads of families of Nethinim Ezr 2:46 = Ne 7:49. names of Levites Ne 8:7; 10:11; 13:3. chiefs of the people: Ne 10:23. Ne 10:27. Benjamite name 1 Ch 8:23, 38; 9:44 (cf. n.pr.loc. בֵּית חָנָן, Mish. כְּפַר חָנָן). אִישׁ הָאֱלֹהִים head of a prophetic guild, בְּנֵי הָנָן Je 35:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hanan (9); of Hanan (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.23/#tree)

פְּלַטְיָ֥ה חָנָ֖ן עֲנָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Pelatiah Hanan Anaiah

*JPS 1917:* Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah;

[Nehemiah 10:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.27/#tree)

וַאֲחִיָּ֥ה חָנָ֖ן עָנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Ahiah Hanan Anan

*JPS 1917:* and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2605.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2605/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).