STRONGS NUMBER H1141


Word Summary
Benayahu or Benayah: "Yah has built up", the name of several Israelites
Original Word: בְּנָיָה
Transliteration: Benayahu or Benayah
Phonetic Spelling: (ben-aw-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah has built up", the name of several Israelites
Meaning: Benaiah -- "Yah has built up", the name of several Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Benaiah

Or (prolonged) Bnayahuw {ben-aw-yaw'-hoo}; from banah and Yahh; Jah has built; Benajah, the name of twelve Israelites -- Benaiah.

see HEBREW banah

see HEBREW Yahh

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1141. Benayahu

or Benayah בְּנָיָה בְּנָיָ֫הוּ,proper name, masculine (Yah hath built up, compare יבנאל‎, Sabean בנאל‎ DHMZMG 1883, 15) —

1 one of David's captains and heroes, son of Jehoiada, בניהו2 Samuel 8:18; 23:20, 22; 1 Kings 1:8, 10, 26, 32, 36, 38, 44; 2:25, 29, 30 (twice in verse); 2:34; 2:35; 2:46; 4:4; 1 Chronicles 11:24; 18:17; 27:5-6, compare 27:34 (see Be); = בניה2 Samuel 20:23; 1 Chronicles 11:22.

2 one of David's thirty, בניהו2 Samuel 23:30 = בניה1 Chronicles 11:31; 27:14.

3 a Simeonite, בניה1 Chronicles 4:36.

4 Levites,

a. בניהו1 Chronicles 15:18, 20, 24;

b. (id.) 2 Chronicles 31:13;

c. בניה2 Chronicles 20:14.

5 Israelites, בניה

a. Ezra 10:25;

b. Ezra 10:30;

c. Ezra 10:35;

d. Ezra 10:43;

e. Ezekiel 11:13 = בניהו11:1.