בִּנְיָמִין binyamin

Hebrew word for “Benjamin” · Strong’s H1144 · used 166 times in 159 verses

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Meaning

A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.35.18;

Senses in the lexicon

• Benjamin (158)
• Benjamin (Gate) (3)
• Benjamin (1)
• Benjamin (1)
• Benjamin (1)
• Benjamin (1)
• (Gate of) Benjamin (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for binyamin in context, with how often each is used:

• benjamin 163
• against benjamin 1
• among benjamin 1
• belonged to benjamin 1

Where it is used

Also in 7 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 20 (27), Judges 21 (11), Genesis 43 (5), 2 Chronicles 11 (5), Joshua 18 (4), 2 Samuel 2 (4), Nehemiah 11 (4), Ezekiel 48 (4), Genesis 45 (3), Numbers 1 (3)

Forms

• בנימן 100
• ובנימן 27
• בנימין 12
• לבנימן 11
• מבנימן 7
• בבנימן 2
• ולבנימן 1
• ובבנימין 1
• מבנימין 1
• ובנימין 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with binyamin more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 34
• גִּבְעָה givah “Gibeah” 18
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 19
• עִיר ir “city” 21
• מִן־ min “from” 21
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 16
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 16
• שֵׁבֶט shevet “tribe” 11
• מַטֶּה matteh “tribe” 11
• עִם im “with” 16
• מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpachah “family” 11
• שָׁאוּל shaul “Saul” 12

Key verses

The verses using binyamin that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 42:36 — And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin all these things are against me.
• Genesis 43:14 — And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
• Judges 20:18 — And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the…
• Judges 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 Benjamin…
• 2 Chronicles 15:2 — And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he…
• 2 Chronicles 15:8 — And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and…
• 2 Chronicles 31:1 — Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and…
• Jeremiah 6:1 — O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem:…
• Jeremiah 20:2 — Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
• Hosea 5:8 — Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
• Obadiah 1:19 — And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of…
• Zechariah 14:10 — All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.