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# חֲנַנְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2608

**Hananiah** — used 25 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

Hananiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2608/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲנַנְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2608/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ hath been gracious)—𝔊 Ἀνανίας; חֲנַנְיָהוּ: (cf. חנניהו on Israel. seal, GanneauJAs Fev.-Mars 1883, 128, No. 1)— father of a prince under Jehoiakim Je 36:12. captain of Uzziah’s army 2 Ch 26:11. chief of one of the divisions of musicians of David 1 Ch 25:23 = חֲנַנְיָה v 4.—חֲנַנְיָה: a false prophet of Jeremiah’s time Je 28:1, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15(×2), 17. one of the three companions of Daniel Dn 1:6, 7, 11, 19. grandfather of an officer of the guard in Jeremiah’s time Je 37:13. a son of Zerubbabel 1 Ch 3:19, 21. a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:24. various postexilic persons. Ezr 10:28. Ne 3:8. Ne 3:30. Ne 7:2. Ne 10:24. Ne 12:12, 41.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hananiah (22); of Hananiah (2); O Hananiah (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.24/#tree)

הוֹשֵׁ֥עַ חֲנַנְיָ֖ה חַשּֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* Hoshea Hananiah Hasshub

*JPS 1917:* Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub;

[1 Chronicles 8:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.24/#tree)

וַחֲנַנְיָ֥ה וְעֵילָ֖ם וְעַנְתֹתִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Hananiah and Elam and Anthothijah

*JPS 1917:* and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothiah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2608.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2608/): 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).