Dict: smith - ANAN

smith:

ANAN - A>@ - (a cloud), one of the "heads of the people" who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:26) (B.C. 410.)

ANANI - A>@ - (Protected by Jehovah), the seventh son of Elioenai, descended from the royal line of Judah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:3:24)

ANANIAH - A>@ - (protected by Jehovah) probably a priest, and ancestor of Azariah, who assisted in rebuilding the city wall in the days of Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:3:23) (B.C. before 446.)

ANANIAH - A>@ - a place, named between Nob and Hazor, in which the Benjamites lived after their return from captivity. kjv@Nehemiah:11:32)

ANANIAS - A>@ - (whom Jehovah has graciously given) A high priest in kjv@Acts:23:2-5 kjv@Acts:24:1) He was the son of Nebedaeus. He was nominated to the office by Herod king of Chalcis in A.D. 48; was deposed shortly before Felix left the province and assassinated by the Sicarii at the beginning of the last Jewish war. A disciple at Jerusalem, husband of Sapphira. kjv@Acts:5:1-11) having sold his goods for the benefit of the church he kept back a part of the price, bringing to the apostles the remainder as if it was the whole, his wife being privy to the scheme. St. Peter denounced the fraud, and Ananias fell down and expired. A Jewish disciple at Damascus, kjv@Acts:9:10-17) of high repute, kjv@Acts:22:12) who sought out Saul during the period of blindness which followed his conversion, and announced to him his future commission as a preacher of the gospel. Tradition makes him to have been afterwarded bishop of Damascus, and to have died by martyrdom.