Bible Dictionary

Baana

Easton's Bible Dictionary 1897

Son of affliction. (1.) One of Solomon’s purveyors (1 Kings 4:12).

(2.) Son of Hushai, another of Solomon’s purveyors (1 Kings 4:16).

(3.) Father of Zadok (Neh. 3:4).

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1863

  1. The son of Ahilud, Solmon’s commissariat officer in Jezreel and the north of the Jordan valley. (1 Kings 4:12) (B.C.1000.)
  2. Father of Zadok, who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 3:4) (B.C. 446.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia 1915

ba'-a-na (Old Testament and Apocrypha; Baana; ba`ana' "son of oppression"):

(1, 2) Two commissariat-officers in the service of Solomon (1Ki 4:12; 4:16; the King James Version "Baanah").

(3) Father of Zadok, the builder (Ne 3:4).

(4) A leader who returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 Esdras 5:8). Compare Bannah (Ezr 2:2; Ne 7:7; 10:27).