חַנָּה
Channâh · khan-naw'
Channah, an Israelitess
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2603 (חָנַן); favored;
Channah, an Israelitess
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Hannah.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
To separate and protect of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חַנָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
13 occurrences · 13 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- hannah3 · 23%
- but hannah2 · 15%
- and hannah2 · 15%
- was hannah1 · 8%
- but unto hannah1 · 8%
- to her, hannah1 · 8%
- so hannah1 · 8%
- now hannah1 · 8%
- about after hannah1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
- 1 Samuel13
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.