בְּנָיָה

Strong’s Definition

Benajah, the name of twelve Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

or בּנָיָהוּ; (prolonged) from H1129 (בָּנָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has built;

KJV Usage

Benaiah.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.one of david's mighty warriors, son of jehoiada the chief priest, a levite, set by david over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful to solomon during adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of joab as commander-in-chief of the army
• 2.the pirathonite, an ephraimite, one of david's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course
• 3.a simeonite, a prince of the families of simeon
• 4.a levite in the time of david who played with a psaltery on alamoth
• 5.a priest in the time of david, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark
• 6.a levite of the sons of asaph
• 7.a levite in the time of hezekiah
• 8.four israelites in the time of ezra who had taken strange wives
• 9.the father of pelatiah

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Bᵉnâyâh; Pronunciation: ben-aw-yaw'