Onias may refer to:

People

*Any of the Jewish high priests known as Onias ( he, חוֹנִיּוֹ, link=no ''Honio'', also ''Honiyya'' or ''Honiyahu'') at the time of the Second Temple, described by such sources as Josephus: **

Onias I Onias I (Hebrew: חוניו ; ''Honiyya'' or ''Honio ben Jaddua'') was the son of the Jaddua mentioned in Nehemiah. According to Josephus, this Jaddua is said to have been a contemporary of Alexander the Great (reigned 336-323 BCE). I Maccabees re ...

, son of Jaddua and high priest in the late 4th and early 3rd century BCE **

Onias II Onias II (Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ ''Ḥōniyyō'' or ''Honio'' or ''Honiyya ben Shimon''; Greek: ''Onias Simonides'') was the son of Simon I. He was still a minor when his father died, so that his uncle Eleazar, and after him the latter's uncle ...

, son of Simon the Just and probably grandson of Onias I, high priest in the early 2nd century BCE **

Onias III Onias III ( he, חוֹנִיּוֹ ''Ḥōnīyyō''), son of Simon II, was Jewish High Priest during the Second Temple period. He is described in scriptures as a pious man who opposed the Hellenization of Judea. He was succeeded by his brother Ja ...

, son of Simon II and high priest in the early 2nd century BCE **

Onias IV Onias IV ( he, חוֹנִיּוֹ ''Ḥōniyyō'') was the son of Onias III and the heir of the Zadokite line of High Priests of Israel. He built a new Jewish temple at Leontopolis in Ptolemaic Egypt where he reigned as a rival High Priest to t ...

, son of Onias III who was never high priest but built the temple in the

Land of Onias The Land of Onias ( el, Ὀνίας) is the name given in Hellenistic Egyptian, Jewish, and Roman sources to an area in Ancient Egypt's Nile delta where a large number of Jews settled. The Land of Onias, which included the city of Leontopolis (Λ� ...

Menelaus (High Priest) Menelaus ( he, מנלאוס) was High Priest in Jerusalem from about 172 BC to about 161 BC. He was high priest at the beginning of the Maccabean revolt (167-160). He was the successor of Jason, the brother of Onias III. The sources are divided a ...

, who according to Josephus was originally called Onias, second successor and murderer of Onias III *

Onias C. Skinner Onias Childs Skinner (July 21, 1817 – February 4, 1877) was an American jurist and legislator. Born in Floyd, New York, Skinner moved to Peoria, Illinois in 1836. He then moved to Greenville, Ohio where he studied law and was admitted to the ...

(1817–1877), American jurist and legislator * Onias Mupumha (born 1978), Zimbabwean sculptor

Places

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, an area in Ptolemaic Egypt named after Onias IV that was heavily settled by Jews *Alpha Onias III, a planet in the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode "

Future Imperfect "Future Imperfect" is the 82nd episode of the American science fiction television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. It is the eighth episode of the fourth season. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Star ...

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