(Tower of) Hananel
חֲנַנְאֵלStrong’s H2606chananel (cha-nan-el)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chananel is the Hebrew word usually translated “hananel”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.”
Meaning
- Hananeel = "God has favoured"
How it's translated
- hananel 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 2
- Jeremiah 1
- Zechariah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 3:1Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
- Nehemiah 12:39And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
- Jeremiah 31:38Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲנַנְאֵל chananel · (Tower of) Hananel
Hananeel = "God has favoured" the name of a tower in Jerusalem Combined with mig.dal (מִגְדָּל " Tower" H4026)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.