Binyâmîyn — H1144

H1144 · Hebrew — בנימין

Pronunciation: bin-yaw-mene'

Definition

masculine proper noun

Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory

  1. Benjamin = "son of the right hand"
  2. Jacob's and Rachel's youngest son, Joseph's full brother
  3. son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin
  4. a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife
  5. the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob

Usually translated as

Benjamin

Origin

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

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Binyâmîyn occurs 166 times in 159 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (16), Exodus (1), Numbers (10), Deuteronomy (2), Joshua (6), Judges (42), 1 Samuel (11), 2 Samuel (9), 1 Kings (4), 1 Chronicles (15), 2 Chronicles (14), Ezra (4), Nehemiah (6), Psalms (2), Jeremiah (10), Ezekiel (4), Hosea (1), Obadiah (1), Zechariah (1)

Strong's Lexicon — B