Hanani:
(gracious).
(1.) One of the sons of Heman, and head of the eighteenth course of the service (1 Chronicles 25:4; 25:25).
(2.) A seer who rebuked. (B.C. 941) Asa king of Judah (2 Chronicles 16:7). For this he was imprisoned (10). He or another Hanani was the father of Jehu the seer, who testified against Baasha (1 Kings 16:1; 16:7) and Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 19:2; 20:34).
(3.) One of the priests who in the time of Ezra had taken strange wives (Ezra 10:20).
(4.) A brother of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 1:2) who was made governor of Jerusalem under Nehemiah. Ch (Nehemiah 7:2).
(5.) A priest mentioned in Nehemiah 12:36.
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