Strongs Number: H1144
- Hebrew Word
- בִּנְיָמִין
- Transliteration
- Binyâmîyn
- Phonetic
- bin-yaw-mene'
- Part of Speech
- Proper Name Masculine
- Strongs Definition
-
son of (the) right hand; {Binjamin} youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from {him} and its territory
- BDB Definition
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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
- Origin
- From H1121 and H3225
- Bible Usage
- Benjamin.