ASANA (1Es_5:31).His descendants were among the temple servants or Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel; called Asnah in Ezr_2:50 [Neh. omits].
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
as?a-na (Ἀσανά, Asaná, Assaná) = Asnah (Ezr_2:50); omitted in Nehemiah. The sons of Asana (temple-servants) returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 Esdras 5:31).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Asana
(Α᾿σσανά), a man (or place) whose "sons" (servants of the Temple) returned from the captivity (1 Esdr. v, 31); evidently the ASNAH SEE ASNAH (q.v.) of Ezr_2:50, rather than the ASHNAH SEE ASHNAH (q.v.) of Jos_15:33 or 43.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.