Hanan

This term has multiple meanings in the Bible:

1. Shashak’s son and one of the chief men of Benjamin (1 Chr 8:23).→ View encyclopedia entry

2. Azel’s son from Benjamin’s tribe (1 Chr 8:38; 9:44).→ View encyclopedia entry

3. Warrior among David’s mighty men, who were known as “the thirty” (1 Chr 11:43).→ View encyclopedia entry

4. Ancestor of a group of temple assistants who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel after the exile (Ezr 2:46; Neh 7:49).→ View encyclopedia entry

5. Levitical assistant who explained to the people passages from the law read by Ezra (Neh 8:7).→ View encyclopedia entry

6. Levite who signed Ezra’s covenant of faithfulness to God with Nehemiah and others after the exile (Neh 10:10).

7, 8. Two political leaders who signed Ezra’s covenant of faithfulness to God with Nehemiah and others after the exile (Neh 10:22, 26).

9. One of the Levites whom Nehemiah appointed as treasurer over the storehouses (Neh 13:13).→ View encyclopedia entry

10. Igdaliah’s son and head of a prophetic guild occupying the room in the temple where Jeremiah offered the Rechabites wine to drink (Jer 35:4).→ View encyclopedia entry

From Tyndale Bible Dictionary, adapted by Mission Mutual. CC BY-SA 4.0.

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