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בֵּן

ben

bane

Strong's 1890 spelling: bên

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)

Rendered in the KJV as

[phrase] afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ([phrase]) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, [phrase] (young) bullock, [phrase] (young) calf, [idiom] came up in, child, colt, [idiom] common, [idiom] corn, daughter, [idiom] of first, [phrase] firstborn, foal, [phrase] very fruitful, [phrase] postage, [idiom] in, [phrase] kid, [phrase] lamb, ([phrase]) man, meet, [phrase] mighty, [phrase] nephew, old, ([phrase]) people, [phrase] rebel, [phrase] robber, [idiom] servant born, [idiom] soldier, son, [phrase] spark, [phrase] steward, [phrase] stranger, [idiom] surely, them of, [phrase] tumultuous one, [phrase] valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.

  • 4,930
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 158
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 158

  • בֶּן־56
  • בְּנֵ֣י41
  • בְּנֵ֥י24
  • בָּנִ֖ים19
  • בְּנֵי־17
  • בְנֵי־16
  • בְנֵֽי־14
  • וּבְנֵ֣י13
  • בְּנֵֽי־11
  • וּבְנֵ֖י10
  • לִבְנֵ֥י10
  • בְּנ֔וֹ9

and 146 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 88

  • [the] sons of50
  • [the] son of36
  • [the] people of32
  • a son32
  • and [the] sons of29
  • son his28
  • [were] [the] sons of25
  • sons24
  • sons his21
  • son my17
  • [the] children of16
  • O son my14

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 37

  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)139
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)63
  • noun · masculine singular36
  • noun · masculine plural35
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)33
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular33
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular28
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular26
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)25
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular9
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular8
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular8
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmpc · 139
  • HNcmsc · 63
  • HNcmsa · 36
  • HNcmpa · 35
  • HC/Ncmpc · 33
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 33
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 28
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 26
  • HR/Ncmpc · 25
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 9
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 8
  • HNcmsc/Sp3fs · 8

The first 500 of 4,930, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis365 occurrences
Exodus44 occurrences
Psalms91 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled בֵּן

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).