BAANA

ba'-a-na (Old Testament and Apocrypha; Baana; ba`ana' "son of oppression"):

(1, 2) Two commissariat-officers in the service of Solomon (1 Kings 4:12,16; the King James Version "Baanah").

(3) Father of Zadok, the builder (Nehemiah 3:4).

(4) A leader who returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 Esdras 5:8). Compare Bannah (Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7; 10:27).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.