Dict: smith - HANAN

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HANAN - H>@ - (merciful). One of the chief people of the tribe of Benjamin. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:23) The last of the six sons of Azel, a descendant of Saul. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:38 kjv@1Chronicles:9:44) (B.C. 588.) "Son of Maachah," i.e. possibly a Syrian of Aram-maachah, one of the heroes of David’s guard. ( kjv@1Chronicles:11:43) (B.C. 1046). The sons of Hanan were among the Nethinim who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. kjv@Ezra:2:46; kjv@Nehemiah:7:49) (B.C. 536). One of the Levites who assisted Ezra in his public exposition of the law. kjv@Nehemiah:8:7) (B.C. 446.) The same person is probably mentioned in ch. kjv@Nehemiah:10:10) One of the "heads" of "the people," who also sealed the covenant. kjv@Nehemiah:10:22) (B.C. 410.) Another of the chief laymen on the same occasion. kjv@Nehemiah:10:26) Son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, whom Nehemiah made one of the store. keepers of the provisions collected as tithes. kjv@Nehemiah:13:13) Son of Igdaliah. kjv@Jeremiah:35:4) (B.C. 410.)

HANANEEL - H>@ - (whom God graciously gave), The tower of, a tower which formed part of the wall of Jerusalem kjv@Nehemiah:3:1 kjv@Nehemiah:12:39) From these two passages, particularly from the former, it might almost be inferred that Hananeel was but another name for the tower of Meah; at any rate they were close together, and stood between the sheep-gate and the fish-gate. This tower is further mentioned in kjv@Jeremiah:31:38) The remaining passage in which it is named, kjv@Zechariah:14:10) also connects this tower with the "corner-gate," which lay on the other side of the sheep-gate.

HANANI - H>@ - (gracious). One of the sons of Heman, and head of the eighteenth course of the service. ( kjv@1Chronicles:25:4 kjv@1Chronicles:25:25) A seer who rebuked (B.C. 941) Asa king of Judah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:16:7) For this he was imprisoned. ver. 10 He or another Hanani was the father of Jehu the seer, who testified against Baasha, (Kings:16:1,7) and Jehoshaphat. ( kjv@2Chronicles:19:2 kjv@2Chronicles:20:34) One of the priests who in the time of Ezra had taken strange wives. kjv@Ezra:10:20) A brother of Nehemiah, kjv@Nehemiah:1:2) who was made governor of Jerusalem under Nehemiah. Ch. kjv@Nehemiah:7:2) A priest mentioned in kjv@Nehemiah:12:36)

HANANIAH - H>@ - (gift of God). One of the fourteen sons of Heman, and chief of the sixteenth course of singers. ( kjv@1Chronicles:25:4-5 kjv@1Chronicles:25:23) (B.C. 1014.) A general in the army of King Uzziah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:26:11) Father of Zedekiah, in the reign of Jehoiakim. (B.C. before 605.) Son of Azur, a Benjamite of Gibeon and a false prophet in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. In the fourth year of his reign, B.C. 595, Hananiah withstood Jeremiah the prophet, and publicly prophesied in the temple that within two years Jeconiah and all his fellow captives with the vessels of the Lord’s house, should be brought back to Jerusalem. kjv@Jeremiah:28:1) ... Hananiah corroborated his prophecy by taking from off the neck of Jeremiah the yoke which he wore by divine command. kjv@Jeremiah:27:1) ... and breaking it. But Jeremiah was bidden to go tell Hananiah that for the wooden yokes which he had broken he should make yokes of iron, so firm was the dominion of Babylon destined to he for seventy years. The prophet Jeremiah added to this rebuke the prediction of Hananiah’s death, the fulfillment of which closes the history of this false prophet. Grandfather of Irijah, the captain of the ward at the gate of Benjamin who arrested Jeremiah on the charge of deserting to the Chaldeans. kjv@Jeremiah:37:13) (B.C. before 589.) Head of a Benjamite house. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:24) The Hebrew name of Shadrach. He was of the house of David, according to Jewish tradition kjv@Daniel:1:3 kjv@Daniel:1:6-7,11,19; kjv@2:17) Son of Zerubbabel, ( kjv@1Chronicles:3:19) from whom Christ derived his descent. He is the same person who is by St. Luke called Joanna. (B.C. after 536.) One of the sons of Bebai who returned with Ezra from Babylon kjv@Ezra:10:28) (B.C. 459.) A priest, one of the makers of the sacred ointments and incense, who built a portion of the wall of Jerusalem in the days of Nehemiah. Head of the priestly course of Jeremiah in the days of Joiakim. kjv@Nehemiah:12:12) (B.C. 610.) Ruler of the palace at Jerusalem under Nehemiah. The arrangements for guarding the gates of Jerusalem were intrusted to him with Hanani the Tirshatha’s brother. kjv@Nehemiah:7:2-3) (B.C. 446.) An Israelite. kjv@Nehemiah:10:23)

HANANIEL - H>@ - (the favor of God), son of Ephod and prince of Manasseh. kjv@Numbers:34:23)