Strong H2608H2608Nחֲנַנְיָ֫הוּ
Hananiah
One of the 16 senses of Strong H2608
- Transliteration
- chănanyâh chănanyâhû
- Pronunciation
- {khan-an-yaw'} khan-an-yaw'-hoo
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at Jer.37.13;
father of: Shelemiah (H8018N)
father of: Shelemiah (H8018N)
Meaning of the name
Hananiah = "God has favoured"
General definition
In the biblical story
Hananiah
A gatekeeper during the time of Jeremiah.
Hananiah, the son of Shelemiah, was a gatekeeper who arrested Jeremiah on suspicion of defecting to the Babylonians.
In the Bible
Strong H2608N appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- hananiah1
First verses
- Jeremiah 37:13And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.