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Strong's #1144 - בִּנְיָמִין
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- Benjamin = "son of the right hand"
- Jacob´s and Rachel´s youngest son, Joseph´s full brother
- son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin
- a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife
- the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob
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1 youngest son of Jacob, so called by him, but by Rachel, the mother, who died at Benjamin's birth, called בֶּןאֿוֺנִי (q. v.) 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 23t. Judges; 32t. 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 Bu RS 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 ׳כָּלשִֿׁבְטֵי ב Judges 20:12 compare 1 Samuel 9:21; אִישׁ בִּנְיָמִן Judges 20:41; 1 Samuel 4:12 compare אִישׁמִבִּןיָֿ֯מִין 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 מִןבְּֿנֵי פ.
בִּנְיָמִין (“son of the right hand,” i.e. of good fortune, as if Felix, see יָמִין No. 4 ), pr.n. of Benjamin, the patriarch, the youngest son of Jacob and Rachel. The ancestor of the tribe of the same name (בְּנֵי בִנְיָמִין Numbers 1:36 מַמֵּה ב׳ Joshua 21:4, 17 Joshua 21:17 and simply בִּנְיָמִין m. Judges 20:39, 40 Judges 20:40), whose territory (אֶרֶץ בִּנְיָמִין Jeremiah 1:1) is described as nearly in the middle of the land on this side Jordan, Joshua 18:21, seq. The warlike disposition of this tribe is signified, Genesis 49:27.-שַׁעַר בִּנְיָמִין is a gate of Jerusalem, on the north side of the walls, Jeremiah 37:13, 38:7 Zechariah 14:10 prob. the same which is called elsewhere “the gate of Ephraim,” comp. Thes. page 141, A, and Faber’s Archæologie, p. 533. LXX. Βενιαμίν. This word, whenever it denotes the patriarch, is written in one (see בִּן־יָמִין); but the Gentile noun is written separately בֶּן־יְמִינִי (comp. Lehrg. 515) 1 Samuel 9:21; Psalms 7:1, Benjamite, with the art. בֶּן־הַיְמִינִי (like בֵּית הַשִּׁמְשִׁי) Judges 3:15; 2 Samuel 16:11. Plur. בְּנֵי יְמִינִי Judges 19:16. Ellipt. אִישׁ יְמִינִי for אִישׁ בֶּן־יְמִינִי 1 Samuel 9:1; 2 Samuel 20:1, and אֶרֶץ יְמִינִי 1 Samuel 9:4 (like the Arab. بَكْرِىُّ Becrite, for Abubecrite, from ابو بكر).
