1. Hananiah (various persons) — Hananiah (Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה / חֲנַנְיָהוּ, meaning 'YHWH has been gracious'), a theophoric personal name borne by multiple distinct individuals in the Hebrew Bible. These include: (1) a Benjamite military commander under King Uzziah (1 Chr 25:4, 23; 2 Chr 26:11); (2) the false prophet from Gibeon who opposed Jeremiah, breaking the yoke-bars and prophesying the return of the exiles within two years, only to die as Jeremiah foretold (Jer 28:1-17, the most prominent bearer); (3) a postexilic leader who helped repair the walls of Jerusalem under Nehemiah (Neh 3:8, 30; 7:2; 10:23; 12:12, 41); (4) the Hebrew name of Shadrach, one of Daniel's three companions in Babylon (Dan 1:7); (5) a son of Zerubbabel in the Davidic genealogy (1 Chr 3:19, 21). All morphological variants (bare name, with conjunctions, with prepositions, long -yahu form) refer to this shared personal name across these distinct referents. Multilingual glosses consistently transliterate: حَنَنْيَا (Arb), Hananja/Chananja (Deu), Hanania (Fra), हनन्याह (Hin), 하나냐/하난니야 (Kor), Hananias/Jananyah (Spa). 28×
AR["حَنَنيا","حَنَنْيا","حَنَنْيَا"]·ben["হননিয়","হননিয়া","হননিয়ের","হননীয়া","হনানিয়"]·DE["Chananja","Hananja"]·EN["Chananyah","Chananyahu","Hananiah","Hananyah"]·FR["Hanania","[חנניה]"]·heb["חנניה","חנניהו"]·HI["हनन्या","हनन्याह","हनन्याह-ने"]·ID["Hananya"]·IT["Anania","Hanania"]·jav["Hananya","Khananya"]·KO["하나냐","하나냐가","하나냐야","하나냐와","하나냐의","하나니야","하나니야를","하난냐가","하난니야"]·PT["Chananyah","Hananyah","Hananyahu"]·RU["Хананией","Ханании","Ханания","Хананья","Хананьяху"]·ES["Hananías","Jananyah","Jananyahu","Ḥananyah"]·SW["Hanania","Hananya"]·TR["Hananya","Hananya'nın","Hananya'ya"]·urd["حنانیاہ","حننیاہ","حننیاہ-نے","حنَنیاہ"]
1 Chr 3:19, 1 Chr 3:21, 1 Chr 8:24, 1 Chr 25:4, 1 Chr 25:23, 2 Chr 26:11, Ezra 10:28, Neh 3:8, Neh 3:30, Neh 7:2, Neh 10:23, Neh 12:12 (+16 more)
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חֲנַנְיָ֫הוּ, חֲנַנְיָה n.pr.m. (י׳ hath been gracious)—𝔊 Ἀνανίας; חֲנַנְיָהוּ: (cf. חנניהו on Israel. seal, GanneauJAs Fev.-Mars 1883, 128, No. 1)— 1. father of a prince under Jehoiakim Je 36:12. 2. captain of Uzziah’s army 2 Ch 26:11. 3. chief of one of the divisions of musicians of David 1 Ch 25:23 = חֲנַנְיָה v 4.—חֲנַנְיָה: 4. a false prophet of Jeremiah’s time Je 28:1, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13,…