Senaah (Hastings' Dictionary)

Amongst the ' people of Israel' who returned from tlie Captivitj' with Zerubhabel were the 'children of Sennah.' Their numbers were 3630 according to Ezr '2", and 393(1 according to Neh 7". The name occurs again, with the article, hof-^enaah (Neh 3'), in connexion with the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. The people of Senaah built the Fish -gate, and are mentioned next in order after the people of Jericho (cf. Ezr 2").

From this it may perhaps be inferred that Senaah was in the vicinity ot Jericho. In thU case it may possibly be the village Mngdnl- senna, lAcySa.Xatrri, which Eusebius and Jerome [nnom.) place 7 M.P. north of .lericho. In the lists in 1 Es. (5**) the name is given as 436 SENATE SEPHAK Sanaaa (AV Annaas ; B Za/j-i, A Sai-dos ; Anaas), and the number of the children as 33.S0. C. \V. Wilson.

SENATE is the renderin<; of yepov<ria in Ac 5-', where 'all tlie senate of tlie children of Israel' appears to be epexegetical of the preceding 'council' (aw^dpiov). See also Ephesus, vol. i. p. 722", and Saxhedrin. It is the Jewish ' senate ' that is meant likewise by yepovala in 2 -Mac 1'" 4". Tlie allusions to the Roman senate in 1 Mac S""- will be found handled in art. Rome, p. 306".