Onias

Onias may refer to:

People

(Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ‎ Honio, also Honiyya or Honiyahu), any of several Jewish high priests at the time of the Second Temple, described by such sources as Josephus:

• Onias I, son of Jaddua and high priest in the late 4th and early 3rd century BCE
• Onias II, son of Simon the Just and probably grandson of Onias I, high priest in the early 2nd century BCE
• Onias III, son of Simon II and high priest in the early 2nd century BCE
• Onias IV, son of Onias III who was never high priest but built the temple in the Land of Onias
• Menelaus (High Priest), who according to Josephus was originally called Onias, second successor and murderer of Onias III
• Onias C. Skinner (1817–1877), American jurist and legislator
• Onias Mupumha (born 1978), Zimbabwean sculptor

Places

• The Land of Onias, an area in Ptolemaic Egypt named after Onias IV that was heavily settled by Jews
• Alpha Onias III, a planet in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Future Imperfect"

Distinguish from

• Onia (disambiguation)