יְמִינִי

yemini · right, Benjaminite

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3227 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

yemini (יְמִינִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “right, Benjaminite”.

Right (side or hand); in "son of the right" or "man of the right" it is a short form of "Benjaminite", since Benjamin means "son of the right hand".

How to say it

ye·mi·ni

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.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Of the tribe of Jacob's youngest son.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • Benjaminites ×2
  • Benjamin ×1
  • Benjaminite ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • 1 Samuel 9:1

    There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, son of a Benjaminite, a mighty man of worth.

  • 1 Samuel 9:4

    And he passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them; and they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they were not there; and he passed through the land of Benjamin, but they did not find them.

  • 1 Samuel 22:7

    Saul said to his servants who stood by him, “Hear, please, Benjaminites: will the son of Jesse give to all of you too fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?

  • 1 Chronicles 27:12

    The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjaminites; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.