Word

שְׁכַנְיָה

Shᵉkanyâh · H7935 · Hebrew · proper noun · 10 occurrences

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This name belongs to 8 people

Meanings

  1. Shecaniah

    Man; descendant of Zerubbabel; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 3:21 The sons of Hananiah were Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

    1 Chronicles 3:22 The descendants of Shecaniah were Shemaiah, and the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.

    Ezra 8:3 of the sons of Shecaniah who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him 150 males who were in the genealogical list;

  2. Shecaniah

    A man who was the son of Jahaziel and one of the family heads who accompanied Ezra back to Jerusalem after the exile

    Examples

    Ezra 8:5 of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel and three hundred males with him;

  3. Shecaniah

    A man who married a foreign wife after the exile

    Examples

    Ezra 10:2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

  4. Shecaniah

    A man who was the father of Shemaiah, keeper of the East Gate, who assisted with the repairs of the wall of Jerusalem

    Examples

    Nehemiah 3:29 After them Zadok the son of Immer carried out repairs in front of his house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, carried out repairs.

  5. Shecaniah

    A man of the tribe of Levi, a priest or Levite who returned with Zerubbabel and Jeshua after the exile

    Examples

    Nehemiah 12:3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

  6. Shecaniah

    Man; son of Arah; father-in-law to Tobiah

    Examples

    Nehemiah 6:18 For many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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Shecaniah, a name borne by several individuals in the genealogical and priestly records, including a descendant in the line of Hananiah (1 Chronicles 3:21-22), a priestly division head (1 Chronicles 24:11), a Levite overseer under Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:15), and a family head who returned with Ezra (Ezra 8:3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7935. Shekanyah or Shekanyahu (שְׁכַנְיָ֫ה(וּׅ) proper name, masculine (׳י hath taken up…
H7935. Shekanyah
or Shekanyahu (שְׁכַנְיָ֫ה(וּׅ) proper name, masculine (׳י hath taken up his abode); — שְׁכַנְיָה, Σεχενια(ς), etc.:
1 descendant of Jehoiakin 1Ch 3:21-22, (on context see Kit), Ezr 8:3, Ezr 8:5.
2 Ezr 10:2 (different from 1 ?).
3 father of a wall-builder Neh 3:29.
4 father-in-law of Tobiah Neh 6:18.
5 priestly name:
a. Neh 12:3 = שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ 1Ch 24:11, compare שְׁכַנְיָה
3 Neh 10:5; Neh 12:14.
b. שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ2Ch 31:15.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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