Reference: Senaah

thorny, a place many of the inhabitants of which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezr 2:35; Ne 7:38).

Ezr 2:35; Ne 7:38; 3:3. Eusebius and Jerome mention Magdal Senash, "great Senaah," seven miles N. of Jericho.

The children of Senaah, or more correctly Hassenaah, were a clan or family who, according to Ezr 2:35; Ne 7:38,1Es 5:23 [Sanaas], were among the exiles of the first Restoration under Zerub., and had a share in re-building the walls (Ne 3:3). They are elsewhere unknown, unless they should be identified with Hassenuah of Benjamin (1Ch 9:7; Ne 11:9). The latter would then be the correct reading. Other conjectures are less probable.

J. F. McCurdy.

Sena'ah

See HASSENAAH.

Sen'a-ah

(thorny). The "children (i.e. the inhabitants) of Senaah" are enumerated among the "people of Israel" who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel.

Ezr 2:35; Ne 7:38

(B.C. 536.) The Magdal Senna of Eusebius and Jerome denotes a town seven miles north of Jericho ("Senna").