שְׁכַנְיָהוּ
Shecaniah
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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 H7935 appears in the Book of Ezra — 3 distinct verses. 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
- Ezra 8:3 שְׁכַנְיָ֔ה n Proper Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.
- Ezra 8:5 שְׁכַנְיָ֖ה n Proper Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
- Ezra 10:2 שְׁכַנְיָ֨ה n Proper Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
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.
שכניה (Shᵉkanyâh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Shecaniah.” Debuting at 1 Chronicles 3:21, it then recurs through the corpus. With 10 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in 1 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 30% of its uses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7935 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 3 verses 30%
- Ezra 3 verses 30%
- Nehemiah 3 verses 30%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 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: Shechaniah 8×, Shecaniah 2×
- American Standard Version: Shecaniah 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shecaniah 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shecaniah 8×, Shekaniah 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7935 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7935 across 10 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 H7935 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7935 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
7 senses and sub-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 7 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. descendant of Jehoiakin 1 Ch 3:21, 22 (on context v. Kit), Ezr 8:3, 5. e.g. 1 Chronicles 3:21
- 2. Ezr 10:2 (diff. from 1?). e.g. Ezra 10:2
- 3. father of a wall-builder Ne 3:29. e.g. Nehemiah 3:29
- 4. father-in-law of Tobiah Ne 6:18. e.g. Nehemiah 6:18
- 5. priestly name:
- a. Ne 12:3 = שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ 1 Ch 24:11, cf. שְׁכַנְיָה 3 Ne 10:5; 12:14. e.g. Nehemiah 12:3
- b. שְׁכַנְיָ֫הוּ 2 Ch 31:15. e.g. 2 Chronicles 31:15
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
n.pr.m. (י׳ hath taken up his abode);—שְׁבַנְיָה, Σεχενια(ς), etc.:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שכן (shâkan) (H7931) — to dwell.
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.
שְׁכַנְיָה I
- (v. שְׁכִינָא) one having abnormally long eye-brows. Tosef. Bekh. V, 2, sq., expl. שגביניו שוכבין; (Bekh. 44ᵃ שכבנא).
שְׁכַנְיָה II
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Shechaniah, the tenth in the order of priests’ divisions. Pesik. Haʿomer, p. 69ᵇ (not שב׳); a. e., v. יֵשׁוּעַ.
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 8 distinct written forms H7935 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁכַנְיָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:3 | 2 |
| שְׁכַנְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:5 | 2 |
| וּ/שְׁכַנְיָ֛הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 31:15 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁכַנְיָ֖הוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:11 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁכַנְיָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 6:18 | 1 |
| שְׁכַנְיָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:3 | 1 |
| שְׁכַנְיָ֨ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:2 | 1 |
| שְׁכַנְיָֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7935, 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
Shares the same root
- משכן mishkân H4908 dwelling place
- שכן shᵉkan H7932 to dwell
- שכן sheken H7933 dwelling
- שכן shâkên H7934 inhabitant
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shecaniah). 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
One intimate with Jehovah. (1.) A priest to whom the tenth lot came forth when David divided the priests (1 Chr. 24:11).
(2.) One of the priests who were set "to give to their brethren by courses" of the daily portion (2 Chr. 31:15).
Shechani'ah, id. (1.) A priest whose sons are mentioned in 1 Chr. 3:21, 22.
(2.) Ezra 8:5.
(3.) Ezra 10:2-4.
(4.) The father of Shemaiah, who repaired the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:29).
(5.) The father-in-law of Tobiah (Neh. 6:18).
(6.) A priest who returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel (Neh. 12:3; marg., or Shebaniah).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
habitation of the Lord
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 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.
