who speaks or answers; afflicted; poor
(same as Janne)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Luk_3:24.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Jan'na. (flourishing). Son of Joseph, and father of Melchi, in the genealogy of Christ. Luk_3:24. In the Revised Version, written as Jannai.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Janna
(Ι᾿αννά, prob. for Heb. יִנָּה, yannah', flourishing, although no corresponding name occurs in the O.T.), the father of Melchi and son of Joseph, named as the sixth in ascent from Christ on his mother's side (Luk_3:24). B.C. cir. 200. SEE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.