binyamin · Benjamin

What it means

binyamin (בִּנְיָמִין) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Benjamin”.

The youngest son of Jacob and Rachel; also the tribe that came from him and its land. The name means "son of the right hand".

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.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×17
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×11
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×6
• Judges×45
• 1 Samuel×11
• 2 Samuel×11
• 1 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×15
• 2 Chronicles×14
• Ezra×4
• Nehemiah×6
• Psalms×2
• Jeremiah×10
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×1
• Obadiah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 35:18

  As her life was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

• Genesis 35:24

  The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 42:4

  But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers, for he said, “Harm might come to him.”

• Genesis 42:36

  Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and Benjamin you would take; all of it has come upon me!”

• Genesis 43:14

  May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, so that he releases to you your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

• Genesis 43:15

  The men took this gift, and they took double silver in their hand, and Benjamin; and they got up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

• Genesis 43:16

  When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the one over his house, “Bring the men into the house, slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.”

• Genesis 43:29

  He lifted his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” And he said, “May Elohim show you favor, my son.”

• Genesis 43:34

  Portions were carried to them from before him, and Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than the portions of all of them. They drank and became drunk with him.

• Genesis 44:12

  He searched, beginning with the oldest and finishing with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s bag.

• Genesis 45:12

  And look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that is speaking to you.

• Genesis 45:14

  He fell on the neck of Benjamin his brother and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

• Genesis 45:22

  To each he gave changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

• Genesis 46:19

  The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 46:21

  The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

• Genesis 49:27

  Benjamin is a wolf that tears; in the morning he devours the prey, and at evening he divides the spoil.”

• Exodus 1:3

  Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

• Numbers 1:11

  from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

• Numbers 1:36

  Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:37

  those of them counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 2:22

  And the tribe of Benjamin; and the chief of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni,

• Numbers 7:60

  On the ninth day, the chief of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni:

• Numbers 10:24

  And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin was Abidan son of Gideoni.

• Numbers 13:9

  of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;

• Numbers 26:38

  The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

• Numbers 26:41

  These are the sons of Benjamin by their families, and those of them counted were forty-five thousand six hundred.

• Numbers 34:21

  of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;

• Deuteronomy 27:12

  “These shall stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin.

• Deuteronomy 33:12

  Of Benjamin he said, “The beloved of YHWH will dwell in security beside him; he shields him all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells.”

• Joshua 18:11

  And the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families came up, and the territory of their lot went out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.

• Joshua 18:20

  And the Jordan bordered it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by its borders all around, according to their families.

• Joshua 18:21

  And the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,

• Joshua 18:28

  Zela, Eleph, the Jebusite (that is Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath: fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.

• Joshua 21:4

  And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites; and the sons of Aaron the priest, of the Levites, received by lot thirteen cities from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of the Simeonites, and from the tribe of Benjamin.

• Joshua 21:17

  And from the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands,

• Judges 1:21

  But the Jebusite who lived in Jerusalem the sons of Benjamin did not dispossess; so the Jebusite has lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

• Judges 5:14

  From Ephraim came those whose root is in Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. From Machir went down those who command, and from Zebulun those who carry the staff of the scribe.

• Judges 10:9

  The sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in distress greatly.

• Judges 19:14

  So they passed on and went, and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

• Judges 20:3

  Now the sons of Benjamin heard that the sons of Israel had gone up to Mizpah. And the sons of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this evil happen?”

And 126 more times.