benaya · Benaiah

What it means

benaya (בְּנָיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Benaiah”.

The name of several men; the best known is the son of Jehoiada, head of David's guard and later commander of Solomon's army (2 Samuel 8:18; 23:20). It means "YHWH has built."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×5
• 1 Kings×15
• 1 Chronicles×14
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×4
• Ezekiel×2

• 2 Samuel 8:18

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were priests.

• 2 Samuel 20:23

  Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

• 2 Samuel 23:20

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a valiant man, great in deeds, from Kabzeel; he struck the two Ariel of Moab; and he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the well on the day of the snow.

• 2 Samuel 23:22

  These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

• 2 Samuel 23:30

  Benaiah, a Pirathonite; Hiddai from the wadis of Gaash;

• 1 Kings 1:8

  But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David were not with Adonijah.

• 1 Kings 1:10

  But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother he did not invite.

• 1 Kings 1:26

  But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Solomon your servant he has not invited.

• 1 Kings 1:32

  And King David said, “Call Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada to me.” And they came before the king.

• 1 Kings 1:36

  And Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, “Amen! May YHWH, the Elohim of my lord the king, say so.

• 1 Kings 1:38

  So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and set Solomon on the mule of King David, and brought him to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:44

  The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.

• 1 Kings 2:25

  And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he fell upon him, and he died.

• 1 Kings 2:29

  And it was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of YHWH, and there he was beside the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall upon him.”

• 1 Kings 2:30

  And Benaiah came to the tent of YHWH and said to him, “Thus says the king, ‘Come out.’” And he said, “No, but here I will die.” And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, “Thus Joab spoke, and thus he answered me.”

• 1 Kings 2:34

  Then Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his house in the wilderness.

• 1 Kings 2:35

  And the king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest the king put in the place of Abiathar.

• 1 Kings 2:46

  Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 4:4

  and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

• 1 Chronicles 4:36

  and Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, and Benaiah,

• 1 Chronicles 11:22

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in deeds, from Kabzeel: he struck the two Ariel of Moab; and he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the well on the day of the snow.

• 1 Chronicles 11:24

  These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

• 1 Chronicles 11:31

  Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin; Benaiah the Pirathonite;

• 1 Chronicles 15:18

  and with them their brothers of the second rank: Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.

• 1 Chronicles 15:20

  and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with harps on Alamoth;

• 1 Chronicles 15:24

  And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were blowing the trumpets before the ark of Elohim; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers for the ark.

• 1 Chronicles 16:5

  Asaph the head, and his second, Zechariah; Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with instruments of harps and with lyres; and Asaph with the cymbals, making himself heard;

• 1 Chronicles 16:6

  and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests, with the trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of Elohim.

• 1 Chronicles 18:17

  and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were the chief ones at the side of the king.

• 1 Chronicles 27:5

  The third commander of the army, for the third month, was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the priest, as head; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:6

  This is Benaiah, a mighty man of the thirty and over the thirty; and in his division was Ammizabad his son.

• 1 Chronicles 27:14

  The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:34

  After Ahithophel came Jehoiada son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the commander of the king’s army was Joab.

• 2 Chronicles 20:14

  Then upon Jahaziel son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, the spirit of YHWH came in the midst of the assembly,

• 2 Chronicles 31:13

  Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were appointed under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the arrangement of Hezekiah the king and of Azariah the leader of the house of Elohim.

• Ezra 10:25

  And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.

• Ezra 10:30

  And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

• Ezra 10:35

  Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

• Ezra 10:43

  Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai and Joel, Benaiah.

• Ezekiel 11:1

  And a spirit lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gate of the house of YHWH, which faces east; and look, at the entrance of the gate twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

And 2 more times.