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Lexicon :: Strong's H1144 - binyāmîn

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בִּנְיָמִין
Transliteration
binyāmîn
Pronunciation
bin-yaw-mene'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 254a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: בנימין.

Strong’s Definitions

בִּנְיָמִין Binyâmîyn, bin-yaw-mene'; from H1121 and H3225; son of (the) right hand; Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory:—Benjamin.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x

The KJV translates Strong's H1144 in the following manner: Benjamin (161x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x
The KJV translates Strong's H1144 in the following manner: Benjamin (161x).

  1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בִּנְיָמִין Binyâmîyn, bin-yaw-mene'; from H1121 and H3225; son of (the) right hand; Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory:—Benjamin.
STRONGS H1144: Abbreviations
בִּנְיָמִין Genesis 35:18 +; usually בִּנְיָמִן proper name, masculine166 (son of (the) right hand) —
1. youngest son of Jacob, so called by him, but by Rachel, the mother, who died at Benjamin's birth, called בֶּן־אוֺנִי (which see) Genesis 35:18; own brother of Joseph Genesis 35:24; Genesis 42:4; Genesis 43:29; Genesis 45:12; compare Genesis 42:36; Genesis 45:15; Genesis 45:34 +; name of tribe of Benjamin Numbers 1:11; Deuteronomy 27:12; Deuteronomy 33:12; Judges 5:14 + 23 times Judges; + 32 times Samuel Kings Chronicles; Hosea 5:8; Ezekiel 48:23; Obadiah 19; Psalm 68:28; Psalm 80:3; בְּנֵי בנימן (literal Genesis 46:21) of tribe Numbers 1:36; Numbers 2:22; Numbers 7:60; Numbers 26:38, 41; Joshua 18:20, 28; Judges 20:3, 14, 15, 18, 21, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 36, 48; Judges 21:18, 20, 23; 2 Samuel 2:25; 2 Samuel 4:2; 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 8:40; 1 Chronicles 9:3, 7; 1 Chronicles 11:31; 1 Chronicles 12:17; 1 Chronicles 12:30; Nehemiah 11:4, 7, 31; Jeremiah 6:1; Judges 1:21 (twice in verse) (but בני יהודה in || Joshua 15:63 compare BuRS 7); explicitly מַטֵּה בִנְיָמִן Numbers 1:37; Numbers 2:22; Numbers 13:9; Numbers 34:21; Joshua 21:4; 1 Chronicles 6:45 compare Joshua 21:17; מַטֵּה בְנֵי ב׳ Numbers 10:24; Joshua 18:11, 21; 1 Chronicles 6:50; שֵׁבֶט ב׳ 1 Samuel 10:20, 21; 1 Kings 12:21; observe also כָּל־שִׁבְטֵי ב׳ Judges 20:12 compare 1 Samuel 9:21; אִישׁ בִּנְיָמִן Judges 20:41; 1 Samuel 4:12 compare אִישׁ מִבִּן־יָ֯מִין 1 Samuel 9:1; אֶרֶץ בִּנְיָמִן Judges 21:21; 1 Samuel 9:16; 2 Samuel 21:14; Jeremiah 1:1; Jeremiah 17:26; Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 33:13; Jeremiah 37:12; compare Jeremiah 32:8; גְּבוּל ב׳ 1 Samuel 10:2; Ezekiel 48:22 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 48:24; בֵּית בִּנְיָמִן 2 Samuel 3:19; בֵּית יְהוּדָה וּב׳ 1 Kings 12:23; 2 Chronicles 11:1; in name of a temple-gate הָעֶלְיוֺן שַׁעַר ב׳ Jeremiah 20:2; compare Jeremiah 37:13; Jeremiah 38:7; Ezekiel 48:32; Zechariah 14:10.
†2. a son of Bilhan and great-grandson of Benjamin 1. 1 Chronicles 7:10.
†3. a Jew of Ezra's time Ezra 10:32 compare Nehemiah 3:23; Nehemiah 12:34. — בנימן בני פרץ 1 Chronicles 9:4 Kt read with Qr בָּנִי מִן־בְּנֵי פ׳.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

35:18; 35:18; 35:24; 42:4; 42:36; 43:29; 45:12; 45:15; 46:21

Numbers

1:11; 1:36; 1:37; 2:22; 2:22; 7:60; 10:24; 13:9; 26:38; 26:41; 34:21

Deuteronomy

27:12; 33:12

Joshua

15:63; 18:11; 18:20; 18:21; 18:28; 21:4; 21:17

Judges

1:21; 5:14; 20:3; 20:12; 20:14; 20:15; 20:18; 20:21; 20:23; 20:24; 20:28; 20:30; 20:31; 20:32; 20:36; 20:41; 20:48; 21:18; 21:20; 21:21; 21:23

1 Samuel

4:12; 9:1; 9:16; 9:21; 10:2; 10:20; 10:21

2 Samuel

2:25; 3:19; 4:2; 21:14; 23:29

1 Kings

12:21; 12:23

1 Chronicles

6:45; 6:50; 7:10; 8:40; 9:3; 9:4; 9:7; 11:31; 12:17; 12:30

2 Chronicles

11:1

Ezra

10:32

Nehemiah

3:23; 11:4; 11:7; 11:31; 12:34

Psalms

68:28; 80:3

Jeremiah

1:1; 6:1; 17:26; 20:2; 32:8; 32:44; 33:13; 37:12; 37:13; 38:7

Ezekiel

48:22; 48:23; 48:24; 48:32

Hosea

5:8

Obadiah

1:19

Zechariah

14:10

H1144

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Strong's Number H1144 matches the Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyāmîn),
which occurs 167 times in 160 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 35:18–Jdg 20:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:18 - And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:24 - The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:4 - But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:36 - And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:14 - And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15 - So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:16 - And when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief servant, Take these men into my house, and make ready a meal, for they will take food with me in the middle of the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - Then, lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you gave me word? And he said, God be good to you, my son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:34 - And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:12 - And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:12 - Now truly, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which says these things to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:14 - Then, weeping, he took Benjamin in his arms, and Benjamin himself was weeping on Joseph's neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:22 - To every one of them he gave three changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred bits of silver and five changes of clothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:19 - The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:21 - And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:27 - Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:3 - Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:11 - From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 - The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37 - Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:22 - Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of Gideoni, as their chief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:60

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:60 - On the ninth day Abidan, the son of Gideoni, chief of the children of Benjamin:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:24 - At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin was Abidan, the son of Gideoni.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:9 - Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:38 - The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:21 - Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:12 - These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:12 - And of Benjamin he said, Benjamin is the loved one of the Lord, he will be kept safe at all times; he will be covered by the Most High, resting between his arms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:11 - And the first heritage came out for the tribe of Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 - And the limit of the east part is the Jordan. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin, marked out for their families by these limits on all sides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:17 - And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21 - And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out; the Jebusites are still living with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - Out of Ephraim they came down into the valley; after you, Benjamin, among your tribesmen; from Machir came down the captains, and from Zebulun those in whose hand is the ruler's rod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:14 - So they went on their way; and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the land of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3 - (Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Make clear how this evil thing took place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10 - And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:12 - And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13 - Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14 - And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17 - And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God, and the children of Israel said, Who is to be the first to go up to the fight against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah is to go up first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:20 - And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.

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