בֵּן

benson: childHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine4,932 occurrences37 books3,654 verses
This word comes from the names of Beno and Topheth.

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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders בֵּן:

Glossary entries

Topheth Beno Valley of Hinnom Valley of Hinnom

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

4,932 total
  1. Deuteronomy 23:4בֶּן־ · son
    For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
  2. Deuteronomy 23:8בָּנִ֛ים · of children
    The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
  3. Deuteronomy 23:17מִבְּנֵ֥י · son
    No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
  4. Deuteronomy 24:7מִבְּנֵ֣י · of his Israelite
    If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  5. Deuteronomy 24:16בָּנִ֔ים · their children; וּבָנִ֖ים · nor children
    Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
  6. If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
  7. Deuteronomy 25:5וּבֵ֣ן · a son
    When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
  8. Deuteronomy 28:32בָּנֶ֨יךָ · Your sons
    Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
  9. Deuteronomy 28:41בָּנִ֥ים · sons
    You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
  10. Deuteronomy 28:53בָּנֶ֙יךָ֙ · of the sons
    Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
  11. Deuteronomy 28:54בָּנָ֖יו · of his children
    The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
  12. Deuteronomy 28:55בָּנָיו֙ · of his children
    …refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
  13. Deuteronomy 28:56וּבִבְנָ֖הּ · and her son
    The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
  14. Deuteronomy 28:57וּבְבָנֶ֙יהָ֙ · and the children
    …the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
  15. Deuteronomy 29:1בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
  16. Deuteronomy 29:22בְּנֵיכֶם֙ · your sons
    Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
  17. Deuteronomy 29:29וּׄלְׄבָׄנֵׄ֙יׄנׄוּׄ֙ · and to our children
    The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
  18. Deuteronomy 30:2וּבָנֶ֔יךָ · and your children
    …and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
  19. Deuteronomy 31:2בֶּן־ · years old
    …he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
  20. Deuteronomy 31:9בְּנֵ֣י · the sons
    So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
  21. Deuteronomy 31:13וּבְנֵיהֶ֞ם · Then their children
    Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  22. Deuteronomy 31:19בְּנֵי־ · it to the Israelites; בִּבְנֵ֥י · against [them]
    Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
  23. Deuteronomy 31:22בְּנֵ֥י · to the Israelites
    So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.
  24. Deuteronomy 31:23בִּן־ · son; בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    Then the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.”
  25. Deuteronomy 32:5בָּנָ֣יו · that of His children
    His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
  26. Deuteronomy 32:8בְּנֵ֣י · the sons; בְּנֵ֥י · of the sons
    When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
  27. Deuteronomy 32:14בְּנֵֽי־ · from Bashan
    …with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
  28. Deuteronomy 32:19בָּנָ֖יו · by His sons
    When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
  29. Deuteronomy 32:20בָּנִ֖ים · children
    He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
  30. Deuteronomy 32:44בִּן־ · son
    Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
  31. Deuteronomy 32:46בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם · your children
    …he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
  32. Deuteronomy 32:49לִבְנֵ֥י · to the Israelites
    “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
  33. Deuteronomy 32:51בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites; בְּנֵ֥י · in their
    For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
  34. Deuteronomy 32:52לִבְנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”
  35. Deuteronomy 33:1בְּנֵ֣י · upon the Israelites
    This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.
  36. Deuteronomy 33:9בָּנוֹ · his own sons
    He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
  37. Deuteronomy 33:24מִבָּנִ֖ים · of sons
    And concerning Asher he said: “May Asher be the most blessed of sons; may he be the most favored among his brothers and dip his foot in oil.
  38. Deuteronomy 34:7בֶּן־ · years old
    Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
  39. Deuteronomy 34:8בְנֵ֨י · The Israelites
    The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
  40. Deuteronomy 34:9בִּן־ · son; בְּנֵֽי־ · So the Israelites
    Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  41. Joshua 1:1בִּן־ · son
    Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying,
  42. Joshua 1:2לִבְנֵ֥י · the children
    “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.
  43. Joshua 2:1בִּן־ · son
    Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
  44. Joshua 2:2מִבְּנֵ֥י
    And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”