בִּנְיָמִין

Strong’s Definition

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

Etymology & Derivation

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

KJV Usage

Benjamin.

Detailed Definition

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

• 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

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Binyâmîyn; Pronunciation: bin-yaw-mene'