an´is (the King James Version Ananias; the Revised Version, margin Annias, ἈννειÌÏ‚, AnneıÌs Codex Vaticanus, ἈννιαÌÏ‚, AnniaÌs Codex Alexandrinus): The name of a family in the list of the returning exiles (1 Esdras 5:16). The name is not given in the parallel list in Ezra and Nehemiah.