chan.ni.el is used as a personal name for men identified within family and tribal contexts.

The attested form is a proper personal name: one bearer is listed among Ulla’s sons, while another is identified as Ephod’s son and a tribal leader.

1. Personal name in genealogical and tribal identification · dominant

   In 1 Chronicles 7:39, the proper noun occurs in a list of Ulla’s sons; the APB renders the list “Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.” In Numbers 34:23, the same proper-noun form identifies Ephod’s son as a leader from the tribe of Manasseh; the APB renders “the leader Hanniel son of Ephod.”

   1 Chronicles 7:39Numbers 34:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name as “Hanniel” in both verses, once in a family list and once with the identification “son of Ephod.” The verse is read as a whole.