בֵּן
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hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine4,932 occurrences37 books3,654 verses
Definition
from H1129; 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.)
Traditional renderings: afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ( ) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, ( ) man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, ( ) people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Traditional renderings: afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ( ) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, ( ) man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, ( ) people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders בֵּן:
Glossary entries
Usage patterns
Occurrences
4,932 total
- Exodus 13:19בְּנֵ֤י · {Joseph had made} the sonsMoses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”
- Exodus 14:2בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites“Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon.
- Exodus 14:3לִבְנֵ֣יFor Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
- Exodus 14:8בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites; וּבְנֵ֣יAnd the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly.
- Exodus 14:10בְנֵֽי־ · the Israelites; בְנֵֽי־ · and [they]As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
- Exodus 14:15בְּנֵי־ · the IsraelitesThen the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
- Exodus 14:16בְנֵֽי־ · so that the IsraelitesAnd as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
- Exodus 14:22בְנֵֽי־ · and the Israelites…and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
- Exodus 14:29וּבְנֵ֧י · But the IsraelitesBut the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
- Exodus 15:1וּבְנֵ֨י · and the IsraelitesThen Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
- Exodus 15:19וּבְנֵ֧י · But the IsraelitesFor when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
- Exodus 16:1בְּנֵֽי־On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.
- Exodus 16:2בְּנֵי־And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
- Exodus 16:3בְּנֵ֣י · [they said]“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
- Exodus 16:6בְּנֵ֖י · the IsraelitesSo Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
- Exodus 16:9בְּנֵ֣יThen Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’”
- Exodus 16:10בְּנֵֽי־And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.
- Exodus 16:12בְּנֵ֣י“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
- Exodus 16:15בְנֵֽי־ · When the IsraelitesWhen the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- Exodus 16:17בְּנֵ֣י · So the IsraelitesSo the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.
- Exodus 16:35וּבְנֵ֣י · The IsraelitesThe Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
- Exodus 17:1בְּנֵֽי־Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exodus 17:3בָּנַ֥י · our childrenBut the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
- Exodus 17:7בְּנֵ֣י · the IsraelitesHe named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Exodus 18:3בָנֶ֑יהָ · sons…along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- Exodus 18:5וּבָנָ֥יו · and sonsMoses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
- Exodus 18:6בָנֶ֖יהָ · sonsHe sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
- Exodus 19:1בְּנֵי־ · that the IsraelitesIn the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 19:3לִבְנֵ֥י · to the sonsThen Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:
- Exodus 19:6בְּנֵ֥י · the IsraelitesAnd unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
- Exodus 20:5בָּנִ֛ים · [their] childrenYou shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Exodus 20:10וּבִנְךָֽ֣־ · nor your son…but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
- Exodus 20:22בְּנֵ֣י · the IsraelitesThen the LORD said to Moses, “This is what you are to tell the Israelites: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.
- Exodus 21:4בָנִ֖ים · sonsIf his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
- Exodus 21:5בָּנָ֑י · and childrenBut if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
- Exodus 21:9לִבְנ֖וֹ · for his sonAnd if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.
- Exodus 21:31בֵ֥ן · a sonIf the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
- Exodus 22:24וּבְנֵיכֶ֖ם · and your childrenMy anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
- Exodus 22:29בָּנֶ֖יךָ · of your sonsYou must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
- Exodus 23:12בֶּן־ · and the sonFor six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
- Exodus 24:5בְּנֵ֣יThen he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.
- Exodus 24:11בְּנֵ֣יBut God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
- Exodus 24:17בְּנֵ֥יAnd the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
- Exodus 25:2בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.
- Exodus 25:22בְּנֵ֥י · the IsraelitesAnd I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
- Exodus 27:20בְּנֵ֣י · the IsraelitesAnd you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
- Exodus 27:21וּבָנָ֛יו · and his sons; בְּנֵ֥י · for the IsraelitesIn the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.