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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. 1 Kings 4:3בְּנֵ֥י · the sons; בֶּן־ · son
    Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
  2. 1 Kings 4:4בֶן־ · son
    Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
  3. 1 Kings 4:5בֶן־ · son; בֶּן־ · son
    Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;
  4. 1 Kings 4:6בֶּן־ · son
    Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
  5. 1 Kings 4:10בֶּן־
    Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);
  6. 1 Kings 4:12בֶּן־ · son
    Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;
  7. 1 Kings 4:13בֶּן־ · son of
    Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
  8. 1 Kings 4:14בֶּן־ · son
    Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;
  9. 1 Kings 4:16בֶּן־ · son
    Baana son of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth;
  10. 1 Kings 4:17בֶּן־ · son
    Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;
  11. 1 Kings 4:18בֶן־ · son
    Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;
  12. 1 Kings 4:19בֶּן־ · son
    Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.
  13. 1 Kings 4:30בְּנֵי־ · the men
    Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
  14. 1 Kings 4:31בְּנֵ֣י · the sons
    He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
  15. 1 Kings 5:5בִּנְךָ֗ · your son
    So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
  16. 1 Kings 5:7בֵּ֣ן · son
    When Hiram received Solomon’s message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!”
  17. 1 Kings 6:1בְּנֵֽי־ · after the Israelites
    In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
  18. 1 Kings 6:13בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
  19. 1 Kings 7:14בֶּן־ · the son of
    He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
  20. 1 Kings 8:1לִבְנֵ֧י
    At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
  21. 1 Kings 8:9בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
  22. 1 Kings 8:19בִּנְךָ֙ · your son
    Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
  23. 1 Kings 8:25בָנֶ֤יךָ · your descendants
    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
  24. 1 Kings 8:39בְּנֵ֥י
    …be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—
  25. 1 Kings 8:63בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
  26. 1 Kings 9:6וּבְנֵיכֶם֙ · or your sons
    But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
  27. 1 Kings 9:20מִבְּנֵ֥י · Israelites
    As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
  28. 1 Kings 9:21בְּנֵיהֶ֗ם · their descendants; בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    …their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
  29. 1 Kings 9:22וּמִבְּנֵי֙
    But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
  30. 1 Kings 11:2בְּנֵ֨י · the Israelites
    These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
  31. 1 Kings 11:7בְּנֵ֥י · of the Ammonites
    At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
  32. 1 Kings 11:12בִּנְךָ֖ · of your son
    Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
  33. 1 Kings 11:13לִבְנֶ֑ךָ · to your son
    Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
  34. 1 Kings 11:20בְּנ֔וֹ · a son; בְּנֵ֥י · the sons
    And the sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son named Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there among the sons of Pharaoh.
  35. 1 Kings 11:23בֶּן־ · the son
    And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,
  36. 1 Kings 11:26בֶּן־ · son
    Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,
  37. 1 Kings 11:33בְנֵֽי־ · of the Ammonites
    For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
  38. 1 Kings 11:35בְּנ֑וֹ · of his son
    But I will take ten tribes of the kingdom from the hand of his son and give them to you.
  39. 1 Kings 11:36וְלִבְנ֖וֹ · to his son
    I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
  40. 1 Kings 11:43בְּנ֖וֹ · And his son
    And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
  41. 1 Kings 12:2בֶּן־ · son
    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.
  42. 1 Kings 12:15בֶּן־ · son
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
  43. 1 Kings 12:16בְּבֶן־ · in the son
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
  44. 1 Kings 12:17וּבְנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    …but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
  45. 1 Kings 12:21בֶּן־ · son
    And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
  46. 1 Kings 12:23בֶּן־ · son
    “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people