Hena
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Hena is an unidentified city referenced in 2 Kings 19:13 as part of the territories conquered by the Assyrian king Sennacherib.
What is the meaning of Hena in the Bible?
Hena appears in 2 Kings 19:13 within a list of cities destroyed by Sennacherib, though its precise geographical identification remains uncertain due to textual variants and the lack of corroborating archaeological evidence.
SIGNIFICANCE
Recognizing Hena as an unidentified location underscores the historical reality of Assyrian military expansion and illustrates how biblical texts preserve records of ancient geopolitical conflicts even when specific place names cannot be definitively mapped to modern geography.
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Built upon the 1915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia and Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897). Entries have been modernized, checked for academic truthfulness, and shortened for clarity.