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# בְּנָיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Benaiah** — used 31 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Benaiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b8_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּנָיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b8_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah hath built up, cf. יבנאל, Sab. בנאל DHMZMG 1883, 15)— one of David’s captains and heroes, son of Jehoiada, בניהו 2 S 8:18; 23:20, 22 1 K 1:8, 10, 26, 32, 36, 38, 44; 2:25, 29, 30(×2), 34, 35, 46; 4:4 1 Ch 11:24; 18:17; 27:5, 6 cf. v 34 (v. Be); = בניה 2 S 20:23 1 Ch 11:22. one of David’s thirty, בניהו 2 S 23:30 = בניה 1 Ch 11:31; 27:14. a Simeonite, בניה 1 Ch 4:36. Levites, בניהו 1 Ch 15:18, 20, 24; (id.) 2 Ch 31:13; בניה 2 Ch 20:14. Israelites, בניה, Ezr 10:25; v 30; v 35; v 43; Ez 11:13 = בניהו v 1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Benaiah (28); of Benaiah (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.30/#tree)

בְּנָיָ֙הוּ֙ פִּרְעָ֣תֹנִ֔י הִדַּ֖י מִנַּ֥חֲלֵי גָֽעַשׁ׃ס

*Word for word:* Benaiah \[the\].Pirathonite Hiddai from the.wadis of.Gaash

*JPS 1917:* Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of Nahale-gaash;

[1 Kings 4:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.4/#tree)

וּבְנָיָ֥הוּ בֶן־יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע עַל־הַצָּבָ֑א וְצָד֥וֹק וְאֶבְיָתָ֖ר כֹּהֲנִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and Benaiah the.son of.Jehoiada \[was\].over the army and Zadok and Abiathar \[were\].priests

*JPS 1917:* and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b8_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b8_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).