Bible Names

Hananiah: meaning of the name

Hananiah means “grace; mercy; gift of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Hananiah in Hebrew and Greek

חֲנַנְיָה H2608

Chănanyâh (khan-an-yaw') — Chananjah, the name of thirteen Israelites

or חֲנַנְיָהוּ; from H2603 (חָנַן) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has favored;

People named Hananiah in the Bible

Hananiah in Scripture

“Hananiah” appears in 28 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:19

    And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:

  • 1 Chronicles 3:21

    And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.

  • 1 Chronicles 8:24

    And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,

  • 1 Chronicles 25:4

    Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti–ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:

  • 1 Chronicles 25:23

    The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

  • 2 Chronicles 26:11

    Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

  • Ezra 10:28

    Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

  • Nehemiah 3:8

    Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.