בְּנָיָה

Detailed Definition

• 1one 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
• 2the pirathonite, an ephraimite, one of david's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course
• 3a simeonite, a prince of the families of simeon
• 4a levite in the time of david who played with a psaltery on alamoth
• 5a priest in the time of david, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark
• 6a levite of the sons of asaph
• 7a levite in the time of hezekiah
• 8four israelites in the time of ezra who had taken strange wives
• 9the father of pelatiah