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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - בִּנְיָמִין
בִּנְיָמִין
H1144
Transliteration: Binyâmîyn
Pronunciation: bin-yaw-mene'
Definition: Benjamin
Original: בּנימין Transliteration: binyâmı̂yn Phonetic: bin-yaw-mene'
BDB Definition:
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