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Place

Senaah

Town or clan name representing one of the largest groups who returned from Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel, whose descendants also rebuilt the Fish Gate.

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Senaah is recorded in the lists of returning exiles in 2:35 and 7:38 as the origin of a very large family group — 3,630 individuals according to Ezra, 3,930 in Nehemiah — who came back from with . It may denote a town whose location is uncertain, or it may be a clan or ancestral designation. The family of Senaah also contributed workers to the rebuilding of the Fish Gate of under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 3:3). Beyond these administrative records, Senaah has no further narrative in Scripture.

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