Çᵉnâʼâh — H5570

Definition

masculine proper noun

Senaah, a place in Palestine

1. Senaah or Hassenaah [with the article] = "thorny"
2. ancestor of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

Usually translated as

Senaah, Hassenaah

Origin

from an unused root meaning to prick; thorny

Occurrences

Çᵉnâʼâh occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezra (1), Nehemiah (2)

• Ezra 2:35 — The children of Senaah (סְנָאָ֔ה), three thousand and six hundred and thirty.
• Nehemiah 3:3 — But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah (הַסְּנָאָ֑ה) build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
• Nehemiah 7:38 — The children of Senaah (סְנָאָ֔ה), three thousand nine hundred and thirty.