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
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Hananiah (Samaritan), 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
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 (d. 250)
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Haninah, or Chaninah, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Judah ben Bathyra and Jonathan
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Hanina ben Hakinai, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simon the Temanite
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Haninah ben Teradion, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I and Halafta
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Hanina of Sura
Rav Hanina of Sura (Hebrew: רב חנינא מסורא) was a Babylonian Amora of the fifth generation.
Like other Babylonian rabbis his title was "Rav", but this is sometimes written in error as "Rabbi". Biography
His mother was a "rebellious ...
5th generation Amora
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Hanina of Sepphoris
R. Hanina (or Hananiah) of Sepphoris ( he, רבי חנניה דציפורין), read as ''Rabbi Hananiah DeTziporin''; alternative Hebrew spelling: רבי חנינא דציפורי) sometimes cited merely as R. Hanina ananiah'' or Hanina (Hananiah) ...
Hellenistic
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Ananias ben Onias Ananias the son of Onias (in Hebrew language, 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 P ...
, 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 (1912–2000), American painter and illustrator
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Hanania Baer, award-winning cinematographer
See also
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Ananiah Ananiah, in the Bible, is a town in the tribe of Benjamin between Nob and Hazor (modern Tell el-Qedah) (). It is one of the localities inhabited by the tribe of Benjamin after the return from the Babylonian Exile. Ananiah, whose name means "pro ...
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Hanani
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