Baana (ISBE)

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bā´a -na (Old Testament and Apocrypha; Βαανά , Baaná ; בּענא , ba‛ănā' "son of oppression"): (1, 2) Two commissariat-officers in the service of Solomon (1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 4:16; the King James Version "Baanah"). (3) Father of Zadok, the builder (Nehemiah 3:4 ). (4) A leader who returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 Esdras 5:8). Compare Bannah (Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7; Nehemiah 10:27 ).