Strong's Hebrew: 7935. שְׁכַנְיָה (Shekanyah or Shekanyahu) -- "Yah has taken up His abode," the name of several Israelites

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Shekanyah or Shekanyahu: "Yah has taken up His abode," the name of several Israelites

Original Word: שְׁכַנְיָה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Shekanyah or Shekanyahu
Phonetic Spelling: (shek-an-yaw')
Short Definition: Shecaniah

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from shakan and Yah
Definition
"Yah has taken up His abode," the name of several Isr.
NASB Translation
Shecaniah (10).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

(שְׁכַנְיָ֫ה(וּׅ) proper name, masculine (׳י hath taken up his abode); — שְׁכַנְיָה, Σεχενια(ς), etc.:

1 descendant of Jehoiakin 1 Chronicles 3:21,22 (on context see Kit), Ezra 8:3,5.

2 Ezra 10:2 (different from 1 ?).

3 father of a wall-builder Nehemiah 3:29.

4 father-in-law of Tobiah Nehemiah 6:18.

5 priestly name:

a. Nehemiah 12:3 = שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ 1 Chronicles 24:11, compare שְׁכַנְיָה

3 Nehemiah 10:5; Nehemiah 12:14.

b. שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ2Chronicles 31:15.

Strong's

Shecaniah, Shechaniah

Or (prol.) Shkanyahuw {shek-an-yaw'-hoo}; from shakan and Yahh; Jah has dwelt; Shekanjah, the name of nine Israelites -- Shecaniah, Shechaniah.

see HEBREW shakan

see HEBREW Yahh