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HebrewH1144Proper Noun (Masculine)

בִּנְיָמִין

bin.ya.min

151Occurrences
H1144Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory

from H1121 (בֵּן) and H3225 (יָמִין); son of (the) right hand;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of 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 § Benjamin = "son of the right hand" 1) Jacob's and Rachel's youngest son, Joseph's full brother 2) son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin 3) a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife 4) the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

בִּנְיָמִין appears 151 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges
42
Genesis
16
2 Chronicles
13
1 Chronicles
11
1 Samuel
11
Jeremiah
10
Numbers
10
2 Samuel
8

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 11:31BSB

Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites,Benaiah the Pirathonite,

2 Chronicles 11:23BSB

Rehoboam also acted wisely by dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.

Genesis 42:4BSB

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”

Judges 20:24BSB

On the second day the Israelites advanced against the Benjamites.

Jeremiah 32:8BSB

Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’”Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

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