H1144Hebrewḇinyāmin

בִּנְיָמִין

Benjamin.

166
Total Occurrences
19
Books
166
Old Testament
0
New Testament

Detailed Definition

  • 1jacob's and rachel's youngest son, joseph's full brother
  • 2son of bilhan, great-grandson of benjamin
  • 3a benjamite, one of the sons of harim, in the time of ezra who had taken a strange wife
  • 4the tribe descended from benjamin, the son of jacob

Etymology & Derivation

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

Scholarly Notes

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