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HebrewH7935Proper Noun (Masculine)

שְׁכַנְיָהוּ

she.khan.yah

10Occurrences
H7935Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shekanjah, the name of nine Israelites

or (prolonged) שְׁכַנְיָהוּ; from H7931 (שָׁכַן) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has dwelt;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Hananiah (H2608L); brother of: Pelatiah (H6410), Jeshaiah (H3470B), Rephaiah (H7509), Arnan (H0770) and Obadiah (H5662H); father of: Shemaiah (H8098B) § Shecaniah or Shechaniah = "dweller with Jehovah" 1) a descendant of Zerubbabel whose descendants returned from exile with ) son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam and one who had a foreign wife in the time of ) father of Shemaiah who repaired part of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah 4) son of Arah, father-in-law of Tobiah who opposed Nehemiah 5) a priest who returned from exile with Zerubbabel 6) a priest in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שְׁכַנְיָהוּ appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
3
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
2 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 24:11BSB

the ninth to Jeshua,the tenth to Shecaniah,

1 Chronicles 3:22BSB

The six descendants of Shecaniah were Shemaiah and his sons:Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat.

Ezra 10:2BSB

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

Ezra 8:5BSB

from the descendants of Zattu, Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men;

Nehemiah 3:29BSB

Next to them, Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his house, and next to him, Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the guard of the East Gate, made repairs.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.