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# חֲנָנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2607

**Hanani** — used 11 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

Hanani [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2607/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲנָנִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2607/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (perhaps abbrev. from foll.);— father of the prophet Jehu 1 K 16:1, 7; 2 Ch 16:7; 19:2; 20:34. brother of Nehemiah Ne 1:2; 7:2. a chief musician of David 1 Ch 25:4, 25. a chief musician in time of Nehemiah Ne 12:36. a priest of Ezra’s time Ezr 10:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hanani (7); of Hanani (4).

## In the verses

[Ezra 10:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.20/#tree)

וּמִבְּנֵ֣י אִמֵּ֔ר חֲנָ֖נִי וּזְבַדְיָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the.sons of.Immer Hanani and Zebadiah

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

[1 Kings 16:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.1/#tree)

וַיְהִ֤י דְבַר־יְהוָה֙ אֶל־יֵה֣וּא בֶן־חֲנָ֔נִי עַל־בַּעְשָׁ֖א לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Jehu the.son of.Hanani on Baasha (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasa, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2607.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2607/): 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).