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Easton's Bible Dictionary - Hena

Hena [N] [H] [S]

one of the cities of Mesopotamia destroyed by sennacherib ( 2 Kings 18:34 ; 19:13 ). It is identified with the modern Anah, lying on the right bank of the Euphrates, not far from Sepharvaim.

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M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.
[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
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[S] indicates this entry was also found in Smith's Bible Dictionary
Bibliography Information

Easton, Matthew George. "Entry for Hena". "Easton's Bible Dictionary". .

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary - Hena

Hena [N] [E] [S]

troubling
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names. Public Domain. Copy freely.
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Hitchcock, Roswell D. "Entry for 'Hena'". "An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names". . New York, N.Y., 1869.

Smith's Bible Dictionary - Hena

Hena [N] [E] [H]

(troubling ), a city the Assyrian kings had reduced shortly before the time of Sennacherib. ( 2 Kings 19:13 ; Isaiah 37:13 ) At no great distance from Sippara (now Mosaib ) is an ancient town called And or Anah , which may be the same as Hena. It is 20 miles from Babylon on the Euphrates.

[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
[E] indicates this entry was also found in Easton's Bible Dictionary
[H] indicates this entry was also found in Hitchcock's Bible Names
Bibliography Information

Smith, William, Dr. "Entry for 'Hena'". "Smith's Bible Dictionary". . 1901.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hena

HENA

he'-na (hena`; Ana):

Named in 2 Kings 19:13, as one of the cities destroyed by Sennacherib along with Sepharvaim. It does not appear in a similar connection in 17:24. The text is probably corrupt. No reasonable identification has been proposed. Cheyne (Encyclopaedia Biblica, under the word) says of the phrase "Hena and Ivah" that "underlying this is a witty editorial suggestion that the existence of cities called h-n-` and `-w-h respectively has passed out of mind (compare Psalms 9:6 (7)), for hena` we`iwwah, clearly means `he has driven away and overturned' (so Targum, Symmachus)." He would drop out h-n-`. Hommel (Expositors Times, IX, 330) thinks that here we have divine names; Hena standing for the Arabic star-name al-han`a, and Ivvah for al-`awwa'u.

See IVAH.

W. Ewing

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Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'HENA'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.