Bible Person
Meaning: full of grace · Male · 2 cross references
This Hanan entry refers to a Nethinim or temple-servant house in the returnee lists, not to the Benjaminite descendant or the Levite in Nehemiah. It belongs to the service infrastructure of restored worship. First appears in Ezra 2:46.1
AI summary: This Hanan matters because the cross references place the name among the temple-servant families who returned after exile. Though brief, the entry shows that restoration depended on many practical service households beyond priests and governors. Taken together, the material presents this Hanan as a servant-house contributing to the daily functioning of post-exilic worship.1
Central Figure
Hanan
Meaning: full of grace
One of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:46).
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.