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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 45 times in 42 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21 - But the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; so the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - From Ephraim were those whose roots were in Amalek.
After you, Benjamin, with your peoples,
From Machir rulers came down,
And from Zebulun those who bear the recruiter’s staff.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - Moreover the people of Ammon crossed over the Jordan to fight against Judah also, against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:14 - And they passed by and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3 - (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wicked deed happen?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “My concubine and I went into Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, to spend the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10 - “We will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to make provisions for the people, that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay all the vileness that they have done in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:12 - Then the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13 - “Now therefore, deliver up the men, the perverted men[fn] who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove the evil from Israel!” But the children of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brethren, the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14 - Instead, the children of Benjamin gathered together from their cities to Gibeah, to go to battle against the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And from their cities at that time the children of Benjamin numbered twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred select men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17 - Now besides Benjamin, the men of Israel numbered four hundred thousand men who drew the sword; all of these were men of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - Then the children of Israel arose and went up to the house of God[fn] to inquire of God. They said, “Which of us shall go up first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” The LORD said, “Judah first!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:20 - And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel put themselves in battle array to fight 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 of Gibeah, and on that day cut down to the ground twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - Then the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, “Shall I again draw near for battle against the children of my brother Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Go up against him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:24 - So the children of Israel approached the children of Benjamin on the second day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - And Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah on the second day, and cut down to the ground eighteen thousand more of the children of Israel; all these drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28 - and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of my brother Benjamin, or shall I cease?” And the LORD said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:30 - And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in battle array against Gibeah as at the other times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - So the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city. They began to strike down and kill some of the people, as at the other times, in the highways (one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah) and in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:32 - And the children of Benjamin said, “They are defeated before us, as at first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - The LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel. And the children of Israel destroyed that day twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjamites; all these drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:36 - So the children of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel had given ground to the Benjamites, because they relied on the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - whereupon the men of Israel would turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty of the men of Israel. For they said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:40 - But when the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and there was the whole city going up in smoke to heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:41 - And when the men of Israel turned back, the men of Benjamin panicked, for they saw that disaster had come upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43 - They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and easily trampled them down as far as the front of Gibeah toward the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44 - And eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So all who fell of Benjamin that day were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned back against the children of Benjamin, and struck them down with the edge of the sword—from every city, men and beasts, all who were found. They also set fire to all the cities they came to.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:1 - Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6 - And the children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - Then the whole congregation sent word to the children of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and announced peace to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - So Benjamin came back at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead; and yet they had not found enough for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:15 - And the people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:17 - And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe may not be destroyed from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18 - “However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the one who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:20 - Therefore they instructed the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go, lie in wait in the vineyards,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21 - “and watch; and just when the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, then come out from the vineyards, and every man catch a wife for himself from the daughters of Shiloh; then go to the land of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - And the children of Benjamin did so; they took enough wives for their number from those who danced, whom they caught. Then they went and returned to their inheritance, and they rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them.
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