--- title: בִּנְיָמִן — Benjamin · The Tanakh dictionary description: בִּנְיָמִן (1144), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 166 times: Benjamin. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1144.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1489-3.md)‎ / בִּנְיָמִן‎ # בִּנְיָמִן «בִּנְיָמִן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Benjamin** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 166 times · **Key:** 1144 · **BDB:** בִּנְיָמִין ### Glosses of.Benjamin (85); Benjamin (80); O.Benjamin (1) ### Meaning (OSHB) Benjamin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1144/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1144/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** Gn 35:18 +; usually בִּנְיָמִן n.pr.m.166 (son of (the) right hand)— youngest son of Jacob, so called by him, but by Rachel, the mother, who died at Benjamin’s birth, called בֶּן־אוֹנִי (q.v.) Gn 35:18; own brother of Joseph Gn 35:24; 42:4; 43:29; 45:12; cf. 42:36; 45:15, 34 +; name of tribe of Benjamin Nu 1:11 Dt 27:12; 33:12 Ju 5:14 + 23 times Ju; 32 times S K Chr; Ho 5:8 Ez 48:23 Ob 19 ψ 68:28; 80:3; בְּנֵי בנימן (lit. Gn 46:21) of tribe Nu 1:36; 2:22; 7:60; 26:38, 41 Jos 18:20, 28 Ju 20:3, 14, 15, 18, 21, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 36, 48; 21:13, 20, 23 2 S 2:25; 4:2; 23:29 1 Ch 8:40; 9:3, 7; 11:31; 12:17, 30 Ne 11:4, 7, 31 Je 6:1; Ju 21(×2) (but בני יהודה in ‖ Jos 15:63 cf. BuRS 7); explicitly מַטֵּה בִנְיָמִן Nu 1:37; 2:22; 13:9; 34:21 Jos 21:4 1 Ch 6:45 cf. Jos 21:17; מַטֵּה בְנֵי ב׳ Nu 10:24 Jos 18:11, 21 1 Ch 6:50; שֵׁבֶט ב׳ 1 S 10:20, 21 1 K 12:21; observe also כָּל־שִׁבְטֵי ב׳ Ju 20:12 cf. 1 S 9:21; אִישׁ בִּנְיָמִן Ju 20:41 1 S 4:12 cf. אִישׁ מִבִּן־יָ֯מִין 1 S 9:1; אֶרֶץ בִּנְיָמִן Ju 21:21 1 S 9:16 2 S 21:14 Je 1:1; 17:26; 32:44; 33:13; 37:12 cf. 32:8; גְּבוּל ב׳ 1 S 10:2 Ez 48:22 (del. Co) v 24; בֵּית בִּנְיָמִן 2 S 3:19; בֵּית יְהוּדָה וּב׳ 1 K 12:23 2 Ch 11:1; in name of a temple-gate שַׁעַר ב׳ הָעֶלְיוֹן Je 20:2 cf. 37:13; 38:7 Ez 48:32 Zc 14:10. a son of Bilhan and great-grandson of Benjamin 1. 1 Ch 7:10. a Jew of Ezra’s time Ezr 10:32 cf. Ne 3:23; 12:34—בנימן בני קרץ 1 Ch 9:4 Kt read with Qr בָּנִי מִן־בְּנֵי פ׳. Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 96 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «בִּנְיָמִן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1144/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Ezra 10:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.32/) בְּנְיָמִ֥ןמַלּ֖וּךְ שְׁמַרְיָֽה׃ס *Word for word:* Benjamin Malluch Shemariah *JPS 1917:* Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah. [Exodus 1:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.3/) יִשָּׂשכָ֥ר זְבוּלֻ֖ן וּבְנְיָמִֽן׃ *Word for word:* Issachar Zebulun and Benjamin *JPS 1917:* Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; - ← previous: [בֵּנַיִם](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1143.md) - next →: [בִּנְיָן](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1146.md) - ↑ back to [ב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1489-3.md)