Shebuel (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. A son of Gershom and grand.soQ of Moses, 1 Ch 23i» (BA 2oi>/3aiiX, Luc. Sou^iijA). He was ' ruler over the treasuries,' 26^ (B'lw^X, A 2oi//3a^X, Luc. Su/3f^\). He is called in 24™ Shubael (Sxiib; B 'Iw/3a?)\, A Sou/Sa^X, Luc. 2ouj3ii5X), whicli is prob. the original form of the name (see Gray, HPN 310). 2. A son of Heman, 1 Ch 2.5^ (BA 2oir;3a7iX, Luc. Zoi/^i^X), called in v.» Shubael (LXX as in v.''). SHECANIAH (ti:;? ; inl Ch24» 2Ch31"(n;j3?»). —1. A descendant of Zerubbabel, 1 Ch 3^-" (B 2ex"''<i. A and Luc. Sexf '"5, which is the reading of Luc. also in all the following passages). It is probably the same Shecaniah who is named in Ezr iS' (B Savaxii, A Zaxavia.) ; see Ryle, ad loc. 2. Ac- (wrding to the MT of Ezr 8, ' the sons of Sheca- niah ' were amongst those who returned with Ezra ; but a name appears to have dropped out of the text, and we should read ' of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel ' (cf. 1 Es 8" ' of the sons of Zathoes, Sechenias the son of Jezelus'). Ezr 8' is wanting in 15 ; A has dirA vlHv Za9ojjs Zexovlas. 3. Chief of tlie tenth course of priests, 1 Ch 24" (B 'Icrxacid, .-V Se«wd). 4. A priest in the reign of Hezekiah, 2 Ch 31" (BA ^exoi-ias). S. A contemporary of Ezra, who supported him in liis action in connexion with the foreign marriages, Ezr 10^ (Xexevlas). 6. The father of Shemaiah, ' the keeper of the east gate,' Neh 3^ (B 'Ex^ii, XA Sex^ni). It is possible that he and No. 1 are identical. 7. The father-in-law of Tobiah the Ammonite, Neh 6' (^exf'd). 8. The eponym of a family wliich returned with Zerubbabel, Neh 12 (Sfxf'd)- It is the same name which, by inter- change of 3 and 3, appears as Shebaniab (see Shebaniah, No. 2) in Neh 10'' 12'''.