Strong H1141H1141Oבְּנָיָ֫הוּ
Benaiah
One of the 12 senses of Strong H1141
- Transliteration
- benâyâh benâyâhû
- Pronunciation
- {ben-aw-yaw'} ben-aw-yaw'-hoo
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.10.30
Meaning of the name
Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"
General definition
In the biblical story
Benaiah
An Israelite who married a foreign woman during the Exile.
Benaiah, from the descendants of Pahath-moab, was one of the men who had married foreign women during the Exile.
In the Bible
Strong H1141O appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- benaiah1
First verses
- Ezra 10:30And of the sons of Pahath–moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.