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Gender Masculine
Usage Biblical
Meaning & History
Meaning "One Offering Help".
1. Father of the false prophet Hananiah from Gibeon.—Jer 28:1.
2. Father of Jaazaniah, who was one of the “princes of the people” among the 25 men Ezekiel envisioned “scheming hurtfulness and advising bad counsel” against Jerusalem.—Eze 11:1, 2.
3. One of “the heads of the people” whose descendant, if not he himself, attested by seal to Nehemiah’s “trustworthy arrangement.”
1. Father of the false prophet Hananiah from Gibeon.—Jer 28:1.
2. Father of Jaazaniah, who was one of the “princes of the people” among the 25 men Ezekiel envisioned “scheming hurtfulness and advising bad counsel” against Jerusalem.—Eze 11:1, 2.
3. One of “the heads of the people” whose descendant, if not he himself, attested by seal to Nehemiah’s “trustworthy arrangement.”