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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H2607

חֲנָנִי

Chananikhan-aw-nee'

Hanani

11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Chănânîy

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2607is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 7
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2607

Chanani, the name of six Israelites

The King James renders it: Hanani.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Chanani is rendered "Hanani". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • Three of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 16:1Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:
  • The Greek text spells it seven different ways.

The first use

Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:

1 Kings 16:1חֲנָ֔נִי

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Three of the word's eleven uses are in 2 Chronicles.

The other 34 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Hanani10
  • to Hanani1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

חֲנָמָלchanamalfrostUses1

All 11, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

7 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • חֲנָ֔נִי3
  • חֲנָ֜נִי2
  • חֲנָ֣נִי2
  • חֲנָ֗נִי1
  • חֲנָ֘נִי֮1
  • חֲנָ֖נִי1
  • לַחֲנָ֔נִי1

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)10HNpm
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm

1 Kings

two uses
  • Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:

    1 Kings 16:1

    • חֲנָ֔נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani
  • Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.

    1 Kings 16:7

    • חֲנָ֜נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • From the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.

    1 Chronicles 25:4

    • חֲנָ֗נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani
  • the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;

    1 Chronicles 25:25

    • לַחֲנָ֔נִיlachananipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Hanani

2 Chronicles

three uses
  • At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

    2 Chronicles 16:7

    • חֲנָ֣נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani
  • Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.

    2 Chronicles 19:2

    • חֲנָ֘נִי֮chananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani
  • As for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from beginning to end, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of Jehu son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

    2 Chronicles 20:34

    • חֲנָ֔נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani

Ezra

one use
  • From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

    Ezra 10:20

    • חֲנָ֖נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani

Nehemiah

three uses
  • Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah. So I questioned them about the remnant of the Jews who had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.

    Nehemiah 1:2

    • חֲנָ֜נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani
  • Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.

    Nehemiah 7:2

    • חֲנָ֣נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani
  • and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani—with the musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the scribe led the procession.

    Nehemiah 12:36

    • חֲנָ֔נִיchananiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hanani

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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