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HebrewH1145Noun

בֶּן־יְמִינִי

ben-y.mi.ni

7Occurrences
H1145Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Benjaminite, or descendent of Benjamin

sometimes (with the article inserted) בֵּן־הַיּמִינִי; with H376 (אִישׁ) inserted (1 Samuel 9:1) בֶּן־אִישׁ ימִינִי; son of a man of Jemini; or shortened אִישׁ יְמִינִי; (1 Samuel 9:4; Esther 2:5) a man of Jemini, or (1 Samuel 20:1) simply יְמִינִיxlit Yᵉmînîy corrected to Yᵉmîynîy; a Jeminite; (plural) בְּנֵי יְמִינִיxlit Bᵉnîy corrected to Bᵉnêy; patron from H1144 (בִּנְיָמִין);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone from the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Israel (H3478) and Rachel (H7354); brother of: Joseph (H3130); half-brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783); father of: Bela (H1106A), Becher (H1071), Ashbel (H0788), Gera (H1617), Naaman (H5283), Ehi (H0278), Rosh (H7220), Muppim (H4649), Huppim (H2650H), Ard (H0714), Ahiram (H0297) and Jediael (H3043); also called Jamin at ; 1x Group of bin.ya.min (*בִּנְיָמִין *"Benjamin" H1144) § Benjamite = "a son of the right hand" one of the tribe of Benjamin

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--PG

Full Description

N:N--PG

Occurrences

בֶּן־יְמִינִי appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
2
Judges
2
1 Kings
1
2 Samuel
1
Esther
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 2:8BSB

Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’

1 Samuel 22:7BSB

Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?

1 Samuel 9:21BSB

Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”

2 Samuel 16:11BSB

Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.

Esther 2:5BSB

Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.