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# שְׁכַנְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7935

**Shecaniah** — used 8 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

Shecaniah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7935/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁכַנְיָ֫ה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7935/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ hath taken up his abode);—שְׁבַנְיָה, Σεχενια(ς), etc.: descendant of Jehoiakin 1 Ch 3:21, 22 (on context v. Kit), Ezr 8:3, 5. Ezr 10:2 (diff. from 1?). father of a wall-builder Ne 3:29. father-in-law of Tobiah Ne 6:18. priestly name: Ne 12:3 = שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ 1 Ch 24:11, cf. שְׁכַנְיָה 3 Ne 10:5; 12:14. שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ 2 Ch 31:15.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: of Shecaniah (5); Shecaniah (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.3/#tree)

שְׁכַנְיָ֥ה רְחֻ֖ם מְרֵמֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* Shecaniah Rehum Meremoth

*JPS 1917:* Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth;

[Ezra 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.5/#tree)

מִבְּנֵ֥י שְׁכַנְיָ֖ה בֶּן־יַחֲזִיאֵ֑ל וְעִמּ֕וֹ שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת הַזְּכָרִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* of the.descendants of.Shecaniah the.son of.Jahaziel and with him \[were\].three hundred(s) the males

*JPS 1917:* Of the sons of Shechaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7935.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7935/): 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).