Hebrew n--pg · H1145
בֶּן־יְמִינִי
Ben-yeminiben-yem-ee-nee'
Benjaminite
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Ben-yᵉmîynîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1145is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1145
a Benjaminite, or descendent of Benjamin
The King James renders it: Benjamite, of Benjamin.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Ben-yemini is rendered "Benjaminite". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 3:15And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
Judges 3:15בֶּן־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ben-5
- the jaminite4
- jaminites2
- a Ben-1
- a Jaminite1
- jaminite1
- O Ben-1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בֶּן־3
- בֶן־2
- הַיְמִינִ֔י2
- יְמִינִֽי׃2
- בְּנֵ֥י1
- בְּנֵ֣י1
- הַיְמִינִ֗י1
- הַיְמִינִי֮1
- יְמִינִ֤י1
- יְמִינִ֑י1
The grammar of each form
- gentilic noun (a people)5HNgmsa
- gentilic noun (a people)4HNgmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)4HTd/Ngmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- gentilic noun (a people)1HNgmpc
Judges
four uses
And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
- בֶּן־ben-gentilic noun (a people)tagged: Ben-
- הַיְמִינִ֔יhayminithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the jaminite
That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.
- בְּנֵ֥יbeneigentilic noun (a people)tagged: Ben-
- יְמִינִֽי׃yeminigentilic noun (a people)tagged: jaminites
1 Samuel
four uses
Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”
- בֶן־ven-gentilic noun (a people)tagged: a Ben-
- יְמִינִ֤יyeminigentilic noun (a people)tagged: jaminite
Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
- בְּנֵ֣יbeneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O Ben-
- יְמִינִ֑יyeminigentilic noun (a people)tagged: jaminites
2 Samuel
four uses
Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
- בֶּן־ben-gentilic noun (a people)tagged: Ben-
- הַיְמִינִ֗יhayminithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the jaminite
Then Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David,
- בֶּן־ben-gentilic noun (a people)tagged: Ben-
- הַיְמִינִ֔יhayminithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the jaminite
1 Kings
two uses
Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’
- בֶן־ven-gentilic noun (a people)tagged: Ben-
- הַיְמִינִי֮hayminithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the jaminite
Esther
one use
Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
- יְמִינִֽי׃yeminigentilic noun (a people)tagged: a Jaminite
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.