סְנָאָה
Senaah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Senaah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5570 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, סנאה (Çᵉnâʼâh) means “Senaah.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Nehemiah (67% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Ezra 2:35. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5570 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Senaah 2×
- American Standard Version: Senaah 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Senaah 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Senaah 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5570 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5570 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5570 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5570 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Senaah or Hassenaah [with the article] = "thorny"
- ancestor of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
Word origin
appar. n.pr.m. בְּנֵי ס׳ Ezr 2:35 = Ne 7:38, בְּנֵי הַסּ׳ Ne 3:3; 𝔊 Σαανα, Σανανα(τ), etc., 𝔊L Σενναα; MeyJudenth. 150, 154 reads סְנֻאָה (ס׳ for שׂ׳, cf. סְנוּאָה) = sons of the hated (rejected) woman, i.e. the poorer classes of Jeruslem.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to prick
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סִנְאָה
- f. = סָנָא. Targ. O. Num. XXXV, 20 ed. Berl. (ed. Amst. סַ׳, corr. acc.).—V. סִנְאֲתָא
סַנְאָה
- (preced.) hater, enemy. Targ. Ex. XXIII, 5. Targ. II Esth. VI, 10; a. e.—Y. Ber. II, 5ᵃ top סַנְאֵיהוֹן דישראל the enemy of Israel. Ḥull. 43ᵇ (euphem.) כלפי סַנְאֵיה דרבא (not סנאוה) against (the enemy of) Raba.—Pl. סַנְאִין, סַנְאַיָּא, סַנְאֵי. Targ. Ps. XXXV, 19 (ed. Wil. סָנְאַי). Targ. Ex. I, 10. Targ. Ps. CXXIX, 5 (Ms. סַנְאֵי; some ed. סַנֵי). Ib. XLV, 6 (some ed. שַׂ׳); a. e.—Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵈ שַׂנְאַיָּיא.—V. שַׂנְאוּתָא.
סְנָאָה
- S’naah. Taan. IV, 5 (26ᵃ) בני ס׳ (Ms. M. שִׁנְאָב; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note); Y. ib. IV, 68ᵇ bot.; Tosef. ib. IV (III), 6 ed. Zuck. (Var. סניאה); Bab. ib. 12ᵃ סִנְאָב (Ms. M. ש׳); Erub. 41ᵃ סנאב (Ms. O. סנאה).
סַנְי
- , pl. of סַנְאָה.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H5570 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סְנָאָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:35 | 2 |
| הַ/סְּנָאָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 3:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5570, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Senaah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Thorny, a place many of the inhabitants of which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:35; Neh. 7:38).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(thorny). The "children (i.e. 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.) The Magdal Senna of Eusebius and Jerome denotes a town seven miles north of Jericho ("Senna").
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
bramble; enemy
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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