# H2606 חֲנַנְאֵל

חֲנַנְאֵל (Chănanʼêl), Strong’s H2606: Chananel, probably an Israelite, from whom a tower of Jerusalem was named KJV: Hananeel.. Occurs 4 times.

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*Chănanʼêl* — Chananel, probably an Israelite, from whom a tower of Jerusalem was named

KJV: Hananeel.

Built from [חָנַן chânan](https://besorah.bible/word/H2603) (to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferi) + [אֵל ʼêl](https://besorah.bible/word/H410) (strength) — means “God has favored”

Occurs 4 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֲנַנְאֵל n.pr.m. (Ēl is gracious)—name of tower at Jerusalem

## Where it occurs
- [Jeremiah 31:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/31?v=38) — “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the city will be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananel to the gate…
- [Zechariah 14:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/14?v=10) — All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and will…
- [Nehemiah 3:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nehemiah/3?v=1) — Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it…
- [Nehemiah 12:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nehemiah/12?v=39) — and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, the tower of Hananel, and the tower of…