King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7935
Transliteration: Shekanyah or Shekanyahu
Phonetic Spelling: (shek-an-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah has taken up His abode", the name of several Israelites
Meaning: Shecaniah -- "Yah has taken up His abode", the name of several Israelites
Word Summary
Shekanyah or Shekanyahu: "Yah has taken up His abode", the name of several Israelites
Original Word: שְׁכַנְיָהTransliteration: Shekanyah or Shekanyahu
Phonetic Spelling: (shek-an-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah has taken up His abode", the name of several Israelites
Meaning: Shecaniah -- "Yah has taken up His abode", the name of several Israelites
Strong's Concordance
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
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7935. Shekanyah
or Shekanyahu (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; 12:14.
b. שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ2 Chronicles 31:15.