🔼The name Asnah: Summary
- Meaning
- Thorn Bush
- Etymology
- From the noun אסנא ('asna'), thorn bush.
🔼The name Asnah in the Bible
The name Asnah (not to be confused with the name Ashnah) occurs only once in the Bible. Ezra mentions him as the patriarch of a family of Nethinim (temple servants) who returned from the Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:50).
Nehemiah, who submits the same lists, omits Asnah for untold reasons (Nehemiah 7:52).
🔼Etymology of the name Asnah
The name Asnah is the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew word סנה (seneh), which denotes a kind of thorny shrub:
אסם
Verb אסם ('asam) means to gather or store. Noun אסם ('asam) means storehouse. A close cognate equivalent of the latter is אסנא ('asna'), which also means thorn bush (see next).
סנה
Possibly related to the previous, the noun סנה (seneh) describes a kind of thorn bush, particularly the one which famously burned.
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🔼Asnah meaning
For a meaning of the name Asnah, both NOBSE Study Bible Name List and BDB Theological Dictionary read Thorn-Bush. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names proposes Bramble.