shechanya · Shecaniah

What it means

shechanya (שְׁכַנְיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Shecaniah”.

Name of several Israelites. It means "YHWH has dwelt."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×3
• Nehemiah×3

• 1 Chronicles 3:21

  And the son of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

• 1 Chronicles 3:22

  And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.

• 1 Chronicles 24:11

  for Jeshua the ninth, for Shecaniah the tenth,

• 2 Chronicles 31:15

  Beside him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, with faithfulness to give to their brothers by divisions, to great and small alike,

• Ezra 8:3

  of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered by genealogy one hundred fifty males;

• Ezra 8:5

  of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males;

• Ezra 10:2

  Then Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our Elohim and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but now there is hope for Israel concerning this.

• Nehemiah 3:29

  After him Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired.

• Nehemiah 6:18

  For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was son-in-law to Shecaniah son of Arah, and Jehohanan his son had taken the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

• Nehemiah 12:3

  Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,