hena Summary and Overview

one of the cities of Mesopotamia destroyed by sennacherib (2 Kings 18:34; 19:13). It is identified with the modern Anah, lying on the right bank of the Euphrates, not far from Sepharvaim.

(troubling), a city the Assyrian kings had reduced shortly before the time of Sennacherib. #2Ki 19:13; Isa 37:13| At no great distance from Sippara (now Mosaib) is an ancient town called And or Anah, which may be the same as Hena. It is 20 miles from Babylon on the Euphrates.

HE'NA (troubling), a city conquered by a king of Assyria, 2 Kgs 18:34; 2 Kgs 19:13; Isa 37:13; believed to be Anah, on the Euphrates, 20 miles from the site of Babylon.

A city with its king subjugated by Assyria before Sennacherib's invasion of Judea (2 Kings 19:13). Associated with Sepharvaim or Sippara (now Mosaib), probably therefore in Babylonia or on the Euphrates. Near Mosaib is still an And, probably Hena. The Assyrian inscriptions mention Anat, a town on an island in the Euphrates, some distance below its union with the Chabour. The present Anat is on the right bank, but ruins lower down on the left bank are so-called. On some of the string of islands between Anat and the ruins Hena seems to have been situated.