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. 2 Kings 18:18בֶּן־ · son
    Then they called for the king. And Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.
  2. 2 Kings 18:26בֶּן־ · son
    Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
  3. 2 Kings 18:37בֶּן־ · son; בֶּן־ · son
    Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
  4. 2 Kings 19:2בֶּן־ · son
    And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
  5. 2 Kings 19:3בָנִים֙ · children
    …to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
  6. 2 Kings 19:12וּבְנֵי־ · and of the people
    Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
  7. 2 Kings 19:20בֶן־ · son
    Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
  8. 2 Kings 19:37בְּנ֖וֹ · And his son
    One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
  9. 2 Kings 20:1בֶן־ · son
    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
  10. 2 Kings 20:12בֶּֽן־ · son
    At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.
  11. 2 Kings 20:18וּמִבָּנֶ֜יךָ · your descendants
    And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
  12. 2 Kings 20:21בְנ֖וֹ · and his son
    And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
  13. 2 Kings 21:1בֶּן־ · years old
    Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
  14. 2 Kings 21:2בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  15. 2 Kings 21:6בְּנוֹ֙ · his own son
    He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
  16. 2 Kings 21:7בְנ֔וֹ · and his son
    Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
  17. 2 Kings 21:9בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  18. 2 Kings 21:18בְּנ֖וֹ · And his son
    And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
  19. 2 Kings 21:19בֶּן־ · years old
    Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.
  20. 2 Kings 21:24בְנ֖וֹ · and they made his son
    But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
  21. 2 Kings 21:26בְנ֖וֹ · and his son
    And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place.
  22. 2 Kings 22:1בֶּן־ · years old
    Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
  23. 2 Kings 22:3בֶּן־ · son; בֶן־ · the son
    Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
  24. 2 Kings 22:12בֶּן־ · son; בֶּן־ · son
    …and commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:
  25. 2 Kings 22:14בֶּן־ · son; בֶּן־ · the son
    So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
  26. 2 Kings 23:6בְּנֵ֥י · of the common
    He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
  27. 2 Kings 23:10בְנֵי; בְּנ֧וֹ · his son
    He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
  28. 2 Kings 23:13בְּנֵֽי־ · of the Ammonites
    The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  29. 2 Kings 23:15בֶּן־ · son
    He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
  30. 2 Kings 23:30בֶּן־ · son
    From Megiddo his servants carried his body in a chariot, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.
  31. 2 Kings 23:31בֶּן־ · years old
    Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
  32. 2 Kings 23:34בֶּן־ · son
    Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
  33. 2 Kings 23:36בֶּן־ · years old
    Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.
  34. 2 Kings 24:2בְנֵֽי־ · and Ammonite
    And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
  35. 2 Kings 24:6בְּנ֖וֹ · and his son
    And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
  36. 2 Kings 24:8בֶּן־ · years old
    Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
  37. 2 Kings 24:18בֶּן־ · years old
    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
  38. 2 Kings 25:7בְּנֵי֙ · the sons
    And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
  39. 2 Kings 25:22בֶּן־ · son; בֶּן־ · the son
    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over the people he had left behind in the land of Judah.
  40. 2 Kings 25:23בֶּן־ · son; בֶּן־ · son; בֶן־ · son; בֶּן־ · son
    When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.
  41. 2 Kings 25:25בֶּן־ · son
    In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.