שְׁבַנְיָהוּ
Shebaniah
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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 H7645 appears — 7 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Nehemiah 6 verses
- Nehemiah 9:4 שְׁבַנְיָ֛ה n Proper Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
- Nehemiah 9:5 שְׁבַנְיָ֣ה n Proper Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
- Nehemiah 10:4 שְׁבַנְיָ֖ה n Proper Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
- Nehemiah 10:10 שְׁבַנְיָ֧ה n Proper and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
- Nehemiah 10:12 שְׁבַנְיָֽה n Proper Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
- Nehemiah 12:14 לִ/שְׁבַנְיָ֖ה prep + n Proper of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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.
שבניה (Shᵉbanyâh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Shebaniah.” Nehemiah dominates its distribution — 6 of 7 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. Debuting at 1 Chronicles 15:24, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7645 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 6 verses 86%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 14%
By section of the Old Testament
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 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 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: Shebaniah 7×
- American Standard Version: Shebaniah 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shebaniah 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shebaniah 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7645 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7645 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7645 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7645 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. -יָה:
- a. Levites, (1) Ne 9:4, 5; 10:13, (2) 10:11; Σεβανια, Σαβανια(ς). e.g. Nehemiah 9:4
- b. priest Ne 10:5, priestly family 12:14 (𝔊L Σεχενια), = שְׁכַנְיָה v 3 (Σεχενια(ς)), and perhaps שְׁכַנְיָהוּ 1 Ch 24:11 (Ισχανια, Σεχενια). e.g. Nehemiah 10:5
- 2. -יָהוּ, priest, 1 Ch 15:24 (Σομνια, 𝔊L Σαβανια). e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:24
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
Derived from שבנא (Shebnâʼ) (H7644) — Shebna.
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.
בַּנָּיָה
- , builder. Y. Yoma III, 40ᶜ; Y. Gitt. VII, 48ᵈ bot.; Y. B. Bath. VIII, 16ᶜ top ב׳ דאורייתא a builder of the law (forming ingenious conclusions).—Pl. בַּנָּיִין. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᵃ top; v. אוּמַן.
שבניה
- , v. שְׁכַנְיָה II
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 7 distinct written forms H7645 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/שְׁבַנְיָ֡הוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:24 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁבַנְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:14 | 1 |
| שְׁבַנְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:4 | 1 |
| שְׁבַנְיָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 9:4 | 1 |
| שְׁבַנְיָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 9:5 | 1 |
| שְׁבַנְיָ֧ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:10 | 1 |
| שְׁבַנְיָֽה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7645, 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.
Derives from
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 → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shebaniah). 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
Whom Jehovah hides, or has made grow up. (1.) A Levite appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark of God (1 Chr. 15:24).
(2.) Another Levite (Neh. 9:4, 5).
(3.) A priest (Neh. 10:12).
(4.) A Levite (Neh. 10:4).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(increased by Jehovah).
+ A Levite in the time of Ezra. (Nehemiah 9:4,5) He sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:10) (B.C. 459.) + A priest or priestly family who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:4; 12:14) Called Shechaniah, Shechaniah in (Nehemiah 12:3) + Another Levite who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:12) + One of the priests appointed by David to blow with the trumpets before the ark of God. (1 Chronicles 15:24) (B.C. 1043.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the Lord that converts, or recalls from captivity
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 7 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
