Hananiah, Hanina, Chaninah, Haninah, Chananiah ( he, חנינא, חנניה) or Ananias ( grc-koi, Ἀνανίας) may refer to:

Hebrew Bible

* Hananiah ben

Zerubbabel According to the biblical narrative, Zerubbabel, ; la, Zorobabel; Akkadian: 𒆰𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 ''Zērubābili'' was a governor of the Achaemenid Empire's province Yehud Medinata and the grandson of Jeconiah, penultimate king of Judah. Zeru ...

, (Old Testament: Chronicles) * Hananiah (aka Shadrach) of

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Hebrew names Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah) are figures from the biblical Book of Daniel, primarily chapter 3. In the narrative, the three Hebrew men are thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar II, King o ...

Hananiah (Samaritan) Hananiah ben Sanballat was hereditary governor of Samaria under the Achaemenid Empire. He reigned during the mid fourth century BCE. He was the son of Sanballat II and is mentioned in the Elephantine papyri The Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca consi ...

, 4th century BC, governor of

Samaria Samaria (; he, שֹׁמְרוֹן, translit=Šōmrōn, ar, السامرة, translit=as-Sāmirah) is the historic and biblical name used for the central region of Palestine, bordered by Judea to the south and Galilee to the north. The first ...

under the

Achaemenid Empire The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire (; peo, 𐎧𐏁𐏂, , ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. Based in Western Asia, it was contemporarily the largest em ...

* Hananiah ben Azzur, a false prophet mentioned in

Jeremiah 28 Jeremiah 28 is the twenty-eighth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.Halley, Henry H. ''Halley's Bible Handbook'': An Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing Ho ...

Rabbis

Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim Hanina ananyahSegan ha-Kohanim ( he, ר' חנינא (חנניה) סגן הכהנים, lit. ''"R. Hanina (Hananiah) heSegan (Deputy) Ha-Kohanim (High priest)"'') was of the first Generation of the Jewish Tanna sages. He was the father of Rabbi ...

first generation Tanna *

Hanina Rav Hanina (or Hananiah, sometimes spelled: Hananyah; he, רב חנינא or ) was second and third generation Amora Sage of the Land of Israel. Biography He was a student of Rabbi Yannai and R. Yochanan bar Nafcha. He was the scion of a fa ...

, third generation Amora the Land of Israel *

Hanina bar Hama Hanina bar Hama (died c. 250) ( he, חנינא בר חמא) was a Jewish Talmudist, halakhist and aggadist frequently quoted in the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud, and in the Midrashim. He is generally cited by the name R. Hanina, but some ...

(d. 250) *

Haninah Hanina(h) ben Ahi Rabbi Joshua ( he, חנינא בן אחי רבי יהושע), or Hananiah ben Ahi Rabbi Joshua ( he, חנניה בן אחי רבי יהושע), meaning 'Haninah/Hananiah son of the brother of Rabbi Yehoshua' was a Jewish Tanna s ...

, or Chaninah, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Judah ben Bathyra and Jonathan *

Hanina ben Hakinai Hanina ben Hakinai or Hanania ben Hakinai (Hebrew: חנינא בן חכינאי) was a Tanna of the 2nd century; contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simeon the Yemenite. Sometimes he is cited as "ben Hakinai". Life The identities his early teach ...

, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simon the Temanite *

Haninah ben Teradion Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion ( he, ''Ḥănīnāʾ ben Təraḏyōn'') or Hananiah ( ''Ḥănanyā'') ben Teradion was a teacher in the third Tannaitic generation (2nd century). He was a contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I and of Halafta, toge ...

, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I and Halafta * Hanina of Sura 5th generation Amora *

Hanina of Sepphoris R. Hanina (or Hananiah) of Sepphoris ( he, רבי חנניה דציפורין), read as ''Rabbi Hananiah DeTziporin''; alternative Hebrew spelling: רבי חנינא דציפורי) sometimes cited merely as R. Hanina ananiah Ananiah, in the Bibl ...

Hellenistic

Ananias ben Onias Ananias the son of Onias (in Hebrew, ''Hananiya ben Honiyyahu'') was the son of the Jewish high priest, Onias IV, who founded a Jewish Temple at Leontopolis in Egypt during the persecutions of Antiochus IV. Onias won the favor of Ptolemy VI, who g ...

, son of the priest who founded the Jewish Temple at Leontopolis * Hananiah of Damascus, known as

Ananias of Damascus Ananias ( ; grc, Ἀνανίας from Hebrew חנניה, '' Hananiah'', "favoured of the ") was a disciple of Jesus at Damascus mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sigh ...

, Hellenized Jewish mystic, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as a convert to Christianity and early companion of Saul of Tarsus

Modern era

A personal name, including: *

Hananiah Harari Hananiah Harari (August 29, 1912 – July 19, 2000) was an American painter and illustrator. Life Harari was born Richard (Dick) Falk Goldman, in Rochester, New York. He studied at the Syracuse University School of Fine Arts. He went to Paris i ...

(1912–2000), American painter and illustrator *

Hanania Baer Hanania Baer (born 24 September 1943) is a cinematographer who was born in Israel and works in the United States. He won a Daytime Emmy in 1984 for the '' ABC Afterschool Specials'' episode '' Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy''. Filmography ...

, award-winning cinematographer

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Rabbis

Hellenistic

Modern era

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