Senaah

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SENAAH . The children of Senaah, or more correctly Hassenaah , were a clan or family who, according to Ezra 2:35 , Nehemiah 7:38 , 1Es 5:23 [ Sanaas ], were among the exiles of the first Restoration under Zerub., and had a share in re-building the walls ( Nehemiah 3:3 ). They are elsewhere unknown, unless they should be identified with Hassenuah of Benjamin ( 1 Chronicles 9:7 , Nehemiah 11:9 ). The latter would then be the correct reading. Other conjectures are less probable.

J. F. McCurdy.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Sen'a-ah. (thorny).

1. The "children, (that is, the inhabitants), of Senaah" are enumerated among the "people of Israel," who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. Ezra 2:35; Nehemiah 7:38. (B.C. 536).

2. The Magdal Senna of Eusebius and Jerome denotes a town seven miles north of Jericho ("Senna").

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Ezra 2:35; Nehemiah 7:38; Nehemiah 3:3. Eusebius and Jerome mention Magdal Senash, "great Senaah," seven miles N. of Jericho.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Ezra 2:35Nehemiah 7:38

Holman Bible Dictionary

Ezra 2:35

Morrish Bible Dictionary

See HASSENAAH.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

sḗ - nā´a , sen´ā́ - a ( סנאה , ṣenā'āh  ; Codex Vaticanus Σαανά , Sananá  ; Σανανάτ , Sananát  ; Codex Alexandrinus Σανανά , Sananá , Σενναά , Sennaá , Ἁσάν , Hasán ): The children of Senaah are mentioned as having formed part of the company returning from the captivity with Zerubbabel ( Ezra 2:35; Nehemiah 7:38 ). The numbers vary as given by Ezr (3, 630) and Neh (3, 930), while 1 Esdras 5:23 puts them at 3, 330. In the last place the name is Sanaas, the King James Version "Annaas" (Codex Vaticanus Σαμά , Samá  ; Codex Alexandrinus Σανάας , Sanáas ). In Nehemiah 3:3 the name occurs with the definite article, ha - senaah . The people may be identical with the Benjamite clan Hassenuah (1 Chronicles 9:7 ). Eusebius, in Onomasticon , speaks of Magdalsenna a village about 7 miles North of Jericho, which may be the place intended; but the site is not known.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

[some Sena'ah] (Heb. Senaah', סְנָאָה, thorny; Sept. Σεναά, Σανανά, Σαανά,'etc.), the name of a man (B.C. ante 445) whose descendants, or (more probably), if a town (but none like it is elsewhere mentioned), whose inhabitants (given in various numbers, all apparently exaggerated by erroneous transcription) returned from Babylon (Ezra 2:35; Nehemiah 7:38) and rebuilt the Fish gate at Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:3, Heb. with the art. has-Senaah'; Sept. Ἀσαναά; A.V. "Hassenaah").