SECHENIAS.1. 1Es_8:29 = Shecaniah, Ezr_8:3
2. 1Es_8:32 = Shecaniah, Ezr_8:6.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
sek-ḗ-nı̄?as:
(1) (Codex Alexandrinus Σεχενίας, Sechenı́as; omitted in Codex Vaticanus and Swete): 1 Esdras 8:29 = ?Shecaniah? in Ezr_8:3; the arrangement in Ezra is different.
(2) (Codex Alexandrinus Sechenias, but Codex Vaticanus and Swete, Εἰεχονίας, Eiechonı́as): Name of a person who went up at the head of a family in the return with Ezra (1 Esdras 8:32) = ?Shecaniah? in Ezr_8:5.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Σεχενίας Εἰεχονίας), Apocryphal forms of the Heb. name SHECHANIAH (q.v.); namely,
(a) the father of Lettus (1Es_8:29), or rather of one whose name has dropped out of the text (Ezr_8:3);
(b) the "son" of Jezeluo (1Es_8:32) or Jaha-ziel (Ezr_8:5).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.