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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"
  1. Jacob's and Rachel's youngest son, Joseph's full brother
  2. son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin
  3. a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife
  4. the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob

Origin: from H1121" class="dictionary-topic-link">H1121 and H3225" class="dictionary-topic-link">H3225

TWOT entry: 254a

Part(s) of speech: Proper Name Masculine


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