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# מִנְיָמִין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4509

**Miniamin. Compare** — used 3 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

Miniamin. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4509/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִיָּמִן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4509/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. priestly name: מִיָּמִן assigned to David’s time, 1 Ch 24:9. Neh.’s time Ne 10:8 = מִנְיָמִין 12:17, 41. מִנְיָמִן assigned to Hezekiah’s time 2 Ch 31:15. מִיָּמִין went up with Zerub. Ne 12:5. one of those who took strange wives Ezr 10:25.—𝔊 Βενιαμειν and (especially A 𝔊L) Μιαμειν.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.17/#tree)

לַאֲבִיָּ֖ה זִכְרִ֑י לְמִ֨נְיָמִ֔ין לְמוֹעַדְיָ֖ה פִּלְטָֽי׃

*Word for word:* of Abijah Zikri of Miniamin of Moadiah Piltai

*JPS 1917:* of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin; of Moadiah, Piltai;

[Nehemiah 12:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.41/#tree)

וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֡ים אֶלְיָקִ֡ים מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה מִ֠נְיָמִין מִיכָיָ֧ה אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֛י זְכַרְיָ֥ה חֲנַנְיָ֖ה בַּחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and the priests Eliakim Maaseiah Miniamin Micaiah Elioenai Zechariah Hananiah with trumpets

*JPS 1917:* and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4509.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4509/): 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).