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 DHM^{ZMG 1883, 15}) —

1 one of David's captains and heroes, son of Jehoiada, בניהו‎ 2 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); = בניה‎ 2 Samuel 20:23; 1 Chronicles 11:22.

2 one of David's thirty, בניהו‎ 2 Samuel 23:30 = בניה‎ 1 Chronicles 11:31; 27:14.

3 a Simeonite, בניה‎ 1 Chronicles 4:36.

4 Levites,

a. בניהו‎ 1 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 = בניהו‎ 11:1.

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STRONGS NUMBER H1141