Get to know Ananias better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like liar or prevaricator.
Ananias meaning
- In the New Testament, any of certain members of the early Christian church.
- (with reference to Acts 5.3) A liar.
- A male given name from Hebrew.
Synonyms of Ananias
Using Ananias
- The main meaning on this page is: In the New Testament, any of certain members of the early Christian church. | (with reference to Acts 5.3) A liar. | A male given name from Hebrew.
- Useful related words include: liar, prevaricator.
Context around Ananias
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ananias
- In this selection, "ananias" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, patrus, confidants, federal, brown and club stand out and add context to how "ananias" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include close confidants ananias brown william and forming the ananias club. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ananias" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ananias
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When Ananias came to restore his sight, he called him "Brother Saul". (12 words)
He also attempted to manage the press's release of White House statements by forming the Ananias Club. (18 words)
Patrus Ananias, Federal Chairman of the Workers’ Party and former Minister of Agrarian Development during president Dilma Rouseff’s term, spoke with Zenger News. (24 words)
The founding group included Johnson and five of his fellow clergymen and close confidants: Ananias Brown, William M. Alexander, Patrick Henry Alexander Braxton, John Calvin Allen and W. Charles Lawson. (30 words)
Later while recounting his conversion, Paul recalls the words of Ananias, “Get up and have yourself baptized and your sins washed away, calling upon his name” (Acts 22:16b). (29 words)
Patrus Ananias, Federal Chairman of the Workers’ Party and former Minister of Agrarian Development during president Dilma Rouseff’s term, spoke with Zenger News. (24 words)
Example sentences (5)
Patrus Ananias, Federal Chairman of the Workers’ Party and former Minister of Agrarian Development during president Dilma Rouseff’s term, spoke with Zenger News.
The founding group included Johnson and five of his fellow clergymen and close confidants: Ananias Brown, William M. Alexander, Patrick Henry Alexander Braxton, John Calvin Allen and W. Charles Lawson.
He also attempted to manage the press's release of White House statements by forming the Ananias Club.
Later while recounting his conversion, Paul recalls the words of Ananias, “Get up and have yourself baptized and your sins washed away, calling upon his name” (Acts 22:16b).
When Ananias came to restore his sight, he called him "Brother Saul".