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. Genesis 49:2בְּנֵ֣י · O sons
    Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
  2. Genesis 49:8בְּנֵ֥י · sons
    Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
  3. Genesis 49:9בְּנִ֣י · my son
    Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
  4. Genesis 49:11בְּנִ֣י · his colt
    He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
  5. Genesis 49:22בֵּ֤ן · vine; בֵּ֥ן · vine
    Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
  6. Genesis 49:32בְּנֵי־ · from the Hittites
    The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
  7. Genesis 49:33בָּנָ֔יו · his sons
    When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.
  8. Genesis 50:12בָנָ֖יו · So Jacob’s sons
    So Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them.
  9. Genesis 50:13בָנָיו֙ · They
    They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
  10. Genesis 50:23בְּנֵ֖י · sons; בְּנֵ֤י · the sons; בֶּן־ · son
    He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
  11. Genesis 50:25בְּנֵ֥י · made the sons
    And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
  12. Genesis 50:26בֶּן־ · at the age
    So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
  13. Exodus 1:1בְּנֵ֣י · of the sons
    These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
  14. Exodus 1:7וּבְנֵ֣י · but the Israelites
    …but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
  15. Exodus 1:9בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.
  16. Exodus 1:12בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
  17. Exodus 1:13בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
  18. Exodus 1:16בֵּ֥ן · is a son
    “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
  19. Exodus 1:22הַבֵּ֣ן · son
    Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
  20. Exodus 2:2בֵּ֑ן · a son
    …and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
  21. Exodus 2:10לְבֵ֑ן · son
    When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
  22. Exodus 2:22בֵּ֔ן · a son
    And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
  23. Exodus 2:23בְנֵֽי־ · The Israelites
    After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
  24. Exodus 2:25בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    God saw the Israelites and took notice.
  25. Exodus 3:9בְּנֵי־
    And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
  26. Exodus 3:10בְנֵֽי־ · the Israelites
    Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
  27. Exodus 3:11בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites
    But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
  28. Exodus 3:13בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”
  29. Exodus 3:14לִבְנֵ֣י · to the Israelites
    God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
  30. Exodus 3:15בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
  31. Exodus 3:22בְּנֵיכֶם֙ · your sons
    Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”
  32. Exodus 4:20בָּנָ֗יו · and sons
    So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
  33. Exodus 4:22בְּנִ֥י · son
    Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
  34. Exodus 4:23בְּנִי֙ · to let My son; בִּנְךָ֖ · son
    …and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”
  35. Exodus 4:25בְּנָ֔הּ · her son’s
    But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
  36. Exodus 4:29בְּנֵ֥י
    Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,
  37. Exodus 4:31בְּנֵ֣י · to the Israelites
    …and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
  38. Exodus 5:14בְּנֵ֣י · Then the Israelite
    Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
  39. Exodus 5:15בְּנֵ֣י · So the Israelite
    So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
  40. Exodus 5:19בְנֵֽי־ · The Israelite
    The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
  41. Exodus 6:5בְּנֵ֣י
    Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
  42. Exodus 6:6לִבְנֵֽי־ · the Israelites
    Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
  43. Exodus 6:9בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
  44. Exodus 6:11בְּנֵֽי־ · to let the Israelites
    “Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”
  45. Exodus 6:12בְּנֵֽי־ · the Israelites
    But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
  46. Exodus 6:13בְּנֵ֣י · both the Israelites
    Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.