Hananiah, Hanina, Chaninah, Haninah, Chananiah ( he, חנינא, חנניה) or Ananias ( grc-koi, Ἀνανίας) may refer to:
Hebrew Bible
* Hananiah ben
Zerubbabel
According to the biblical narrative, Zerubbabel, ; la, Zorobabel; Akkadian: 𒆰𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 ''Zērubābili'' was a governor of the Achaemenid Empire's province Yehud Medinata and the grandson of Jeconiah, penultimate king of Judah. Zerubbab ...
, (Old Testament: Chronicles)
* Hananiah (aka Shadrach) of
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Hebrew names Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah) are figures from the biblical Book of Daniel, primarily chapter 3. In the narrative, the three Hebrew men are thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar II, King o ...
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Hananiah (Samaritan) Hananiah ben Sanballat was hereditary governor of Samaria under the Achaemenid Empire. He reigned during the mid fourth century BCE. He was the son of Sanballat II and is mentioned in the Elephantine papyri
The Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca consi ...
, 4th century BC, governor of
Samaria
Samaria (; he, שֹׁמְרוֹן, translit=Šōmrōn, ar, السامرة, translit=as-Sāmirah) is the historic and biblical name used for the central region of Palestine, bordered by Judea to the south and Galilee to the north. The first- ...
under the
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire (; peo, 𐎧𐏁𐏂, , ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. Based in Western Asia, it was contemporarily the largest em ...
* Hananiah ben Azzur, a false prophet mentioned in
Jeremiah 28
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Rabbis
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Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim
Hanina ananyahSegan ha-Kohanim ( he, ר' חנינא (חנניה) סגן הכהנים, lit. ''"R. Hanina (Hananiah) heSegan (Deputy) Ha-Kohanim (High priest)"'') was of the first Generation of the Jewish Tannaim, Tanna sages. He was the f ...
first generation Tanna
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Hanina
Rav Hanina (or Hananiah, sometimes spelled: Hananyah; he, רב חנינא or ) was second and third generation Amora Sage of the Land of Israel.
Biography
He was a student of Rabbi Yannai and R. Yochanan bar Nafcha.
He was the scion of a fa ...
, third generation Amora the Land of Israel
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Hanina bar Hama
Hanina bar Hama (died c. 250) ( he, חנינא בר חמא) was a Jewish Talmudist, halakhist and aggadist frequently quoted in the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud, and in the Midrashim.
He is generally cited by the name R. Hanina, but somet ...
(d. 250)
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Haninah
Hanina(h) ben Ahi Rabbi Joshua ( he, חנינא בן אחי רבי יהושע), or Hananiah ben Ahi Rabbi Joshua ( he, חנניה בן אחי רבי יהושע), meaning 'Haninah/Hananiah son of the brother of Rabbi Yehoshua' was a Jewish Tanna s ...
, or Chaninah, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Judah ben Bathyra and Jonathan
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Hanina ben Hakinai
Hanina ben Hakinai or Hanania ben Hakinai (Hebrew: חנינא בן חכינאי) was a Tanna of the 2nd century; contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simeon the Yemenite. Sometimes he is cited as "ben Hakinai".
Life
The identities his early teach ...
, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simon the Temanite
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Haninah ben Teradion
Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion ( he, ''Ḥănīnāʾ ben Təraḏyōn'') or Hananiah ( ''Ḥănanyā'') ben Teradion was a teacher in the third Tannaitic generation (2nd century). He was a contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I and of Halafta, toge ...
, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I and Halafta
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Hanina of Sura 5th generation Amora
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Hanina of Sepphoris
Hellenistic
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Ananias ben Onias Ananias the son of Onias (in Hebrew, ''Hananiya ben Honiyyahu'') was the son of the Jewish high priest, Onias IV, who founded a Jewish Temple at Leontopolis in Egypt during the persecutions of Antiochus IV.
Onias won the favor of Ptolemy VI, who ...
, son of the priest who founded the Jewish Temple at Leontopolis
* Hananiah of Damascus, known as
Ananias of Damascus
Ananias ( ; grc, Ἀνανίας from Hebrew חנניה, ''Hananiah'', "favoured of the ") was a disciple of Jesus at Damascus mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of ...
, Hellenized Jewish mystic, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as a convert to Christianity and early companion of Saul of Tarsus
Modern era
A personal name, including:
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Hananiah Harari
Hananiah Harari (August 29, 1912 – July 19, 2000) was an American painter and illustrator.
Life
Harari was born Richard (Dick) Falk Goldman, in Rochester, New York. He studied at the Syracuse University School of Fine Arts. He went to Paris i ...
(1912–2000), American painter and illustrator
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Hanania Baer
Hanania Baer (born 24 September 1943) is a cinematographer who was born in Israel and works in the United States. He won a Daytime Emmy in 1984 for the '' ABC Afterschool Specials'' episode '' Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy''.
Filmography ...
, award-winning cinematographer
See also
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Ananiah
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Hanani
The word Hanani ( he, חנני ''Ḥănānî'') means "God has gratified me" or "God is gracious".
Hanani is the name of four men mentioned in the Hebrew Bible:
* One of the sons of Heman (1 Chronicles 25:4, 25).
* A "seer" or prophet who was se ...
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Hebrew masculine given names
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