Strong H1145בֶּן־יְמִינִי

Benjaminite

Transliteration
ben-yemîynîy ben-ha-yemînîy ben-'îysh yemîynîy
Pronunciation
{ben-yem-ee-nee'} ben-eesh' yem-ee-nee'
Morphology
Proper Name of a Person in Gentilic sense

Definition

Multiple forms. Sometimes (with the article inserted); with H376 inserted ();
son of a man of Jemini; or shorter (; );
a man of Jemini; or (); more simply: a Jeminite; (plural patronymic from H1144; a {Benjaminite} or descendant of Benjamin: - {Benjamite} of Benjamin.

Meaning of the name

Benjamite = "a son of the right hand"

Detailed definition

Someone from the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.35.18;
son of: Israel (H3478) and Rachel (H7354);
brother of: Joseph (H3130);
half-brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H836), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783);
father of: Bela (H1106A), Becher (H1071), Ashbel (H788), Gera (H1617), Naaman (H5283), Ehi (H278), Rosh (H7220), Muppim (H4649), Huppim (H2650H), Ard (H714), Ahiram (H297) and Jediael (H3043); also called Jamin at 1Sa.9.1,4; 22.7; 1x
Group of bin.ya.min (בִּנְיָמִין "Benjamin" H1144)

In the biblical story

Benjamin

Youngest son of Jacob and Rachel

Benjamin, initially named Ben-oni by his mother Rachel, was the youngest son of Jacob.

In the Bible

Strong H1145 appears in 17 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • benjamite8
  • benjamites8
  • benjamin1

First verses

  1. Judges 3:15
    But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
  2. Judges 19:16
    And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
  3. Judges 20:35
    And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
  4. Judges 20:36
    So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
  5. Judges 20:40
    But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
  6. Judges 20:43
    Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
  7. 1 Samuel 9:1
    Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
  8. 1 Samuel 9:4
    And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.
  9. 1 Samuel 9:21
    And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
  10. 1 Samuel 22:7
    Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;
  11. 2 Samuel 16:11
    And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.
  12. 2 Samuel 19:16
    And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
  13. 2 Samuel 19:17
    And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
  14. 2 Samuel 20:1
    And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
  15. 1 Kings 2:8
    And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
  16. 1 Chronicles 27:12
    The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
  17. Esther 2:5
    Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
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