Arnan = "lion of perpetuity: or a wild goat: I shall shout for joy"

1. a descendant of David

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Hananiah = "God has favoured"

1. the godly friend of Daniel whom Nebuchadnezzar renamed Shadrach; one of the three friends who with Daniel refused to make themselves unclean by eating food from the king's table which went against the dietary laws which God had given the Jews; also one of the three who were thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow down to a graven image of Nebuchadnezzar and who were saved by the angel of the Lord. See also, 'Shadrach' (H7714 or H7715)

2. one of the 14 sons of Heman and chief of the 16th course

3. a general in the army of King Uzziah

4. father of Zedekiah in the time of Jehoiakim

5. son of Azur, a Benjamite of Gibeon and a false prophet in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah

6. grandfather of Irijah, the captain of the ward at the gate of Benjamin who arrested Jeremiah on the charge of deserting to the Chaldeans

7. a head of a Benjamite house

8. son of Zerubbabel from whom Christ derived His descent also called 'Joanna' by Luke

9. one of the sons of Bebai who returned with Ezra from Babylon

10. a priest, one of the makers of the sacred ointments and incense, who built a portion of the wall of Jerusalem in the days of Nehemiah

11. head of the priestly course of Jeremiah in the days of Joiakim

12. ruler of the palace at Jerusalem under Nehemiah and also, along with Hanani, the Tirshatha's brother, entrusted with the arrangements of guarding the gates of Jerusalem

13. Two post exilic Israelites

Isaiah or Jesaiah or Jeshaiah = "Jehovah has saved"

1. the major prophet, son of Amoz, who prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem during the days of kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah; author of the prophetic book by his name; tradition has it that he was sawn asunder in the trunk of a carob tree by king Manasseh and that this is the incident referred to in Heb 11:37

2. son of Hananiah, brother of Pelatiah, and grandson of Zerubbabel

3. a Benjamite

4. one of the 6 sons of Jeduthun

5. son of Rehabiah, a descendant of Moses through Gershom, and an ancestor of a Levite treasurer in the time of David

6. son of Athaliah and chief of the house of Elam who returned with Ezra

7. a chief of the descendants of Merari who returned with Ezra

Obadiah = "servant of Jehovah"

1. the 4th of the 12 minor prophets; nothing personal is known of him but it is probable that he was contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel

   1. the prophetic book by him; prophesies against Edom

2. father of Ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of Zebulun in the time of David

3. a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king Josiah of Judah

4. chief of the household of king Ahab of Israel; an devout worshipper of Jehovah who at risk to his own life hid over 100 prophets during the persecution of Jezebel

5. a descendant of David

6. a chief of the tribe of Issachar

7. a Benjamite, one of the 6 sons of Azel and a descendant of king Saul

8. a Levite, son of Shemaiah and a descendant of Jeduthun

9. a Gadite chief, the 2nd of the lion-faced Gadites who joined David at Ziklag

10. a prince of Judah in the time of king Jehoshaphat of Judah

11. a priest, son of Jehiel of the sons of Joab who returned from exile with Ezra

12. a gatekeeper in the time of Nehemiah

13. one of the men who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

    1. perhaps the same as 12 above

Pelatiah = "Jehovah delivers"

1. son of Hananiah and grandson of Zerubbabel

2. a Simeonite in the days of king Hezekiah of Judah who was one of the captains of 500 men who defeated the Amalekites who had escaped

3. one of the heads of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

4. son of Benaiah and one of the princes of the people against whom Ezekiel was ordered to prophesy doom

Rephaiah = "healed of Jehovah"

1. a descendant of Zerubbabel and David

2. a Simeonite chief in the reign of Hezekiah

3. son of Tola and grandson of Issachar

4. son of Binea and a descendant of Saul

5. son of Hur and a ruler of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

Shecaniah or Shechaniah = "dweller with Jehovah"

1. a descendant of Zerubbabel whose descendants returned from exile with Ezra

2. son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam and one who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

3. father of Shemaiah who repaired part of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

4. son of Arah, father-in-law of Tobiah who opposed Nehemiah

5. a priest who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

6. a priest in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah