Nehemiah 11:32 (KJV)

What does Nehemiah 11:32 mean?

Nehemiah 11:32 names three places where people from the tribe of Benjamin lived: Anathoth, Nob, and Ananiah. The verse is part of a record of settlements outside Jerusalem after people had returned to the land.

The sentence continues the list from the preceding verse and carries on into the next. The names identify towns, so “Ananiah” here is a place rather than a person.

Where else these words appear

“Ananiah” Hebrew H6055 · used in 2 verses

Nehemiah 3:23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.

“Nob” Hebrew H5011 · used in 6 verses

1 Samuel 21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
1 Samuel 22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

“Anathoth” Hebrew H6068 · used in 15 verses

Joshua 21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
Ezra 2:23 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
Jeremiah 11:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand: