Bible Names

Shecaniah: meaning of the name

Shecaniah means “habitation of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shecaniah in Hebrew and Greek

שְׁכַנְיָה H7935

Shᵉkanyâh (shek-an-yaw') — Shekanjah, the name of nine Israelites

or (prolonged) שְׁכַנְיָהוּ; from H7931 (שָׁכַן) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has dwelt;

People named Shecaniah in the Bible

Shecaniah in Scripture

“Shecaniah” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:11

    The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,

  • 2 Chronicles 31:15

    And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small: