McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Senaah

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Senaah


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[some Sena'ah] (Heb. Senaah', ñְðָàָä , thorny; Sept. ÓåíáÜ , ÓáíáíÜ , ÓááíÜ ,'etc.), the name of a man (B.C. ante 445) whose descendants, or (more probably), if a town (but none like it is elsewhere mentioned), whose inhabitants (given in various numbers, all apparently exaggerated by erroneous transcription) returned from Babylon (Ezr_2:35; Neh_7:38) and rebuilt the Fish gate at Jerusalem (Neh_3:3, Heb. with the art. has-Senaah'; Sept. Á᾿óáíáÜ ; A.V. “Hassenaah”).