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. Jeremiah 1:1בֶּן־ · son
    These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
  2. Jeremiah 1:2בֶן־ · son
    The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
  3. Jeremiah 1:3בֶּן־ · son; בֶן־ · son
    …and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.
  4. Jeremiah 2:9בְּנֵ֥י · your children’s; בְנֵיכֶ֖ם · children
    Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
  5. Jeremiah 2:16בְּנֵי־ · The men
    The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.
  6. Jeremiah 2:30בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם · your sons
    “I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
  7. Jeremiah 3:14בָנִ֤ים · children
    “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
  8. Jeremiah 3:19בַּבָּנִ֔ים · My sons
    Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
  9. Jeremiah 3:21בְּנֵ֣י · the children
    A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
  10. Jeremiah 3:22בָּנִ֣ים · children
    “Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
  11. Jeremiah 3:24בְּנֵיהֶ֖ם · their sons
    From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
  12. Jeremiah 4:22בָּנִ֤ים · children
    “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
  13. Jeremiah 5:7בָּנַ֣יִךְ · Your children
    “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
  14. Jeremiah 5:17בָּנֶ֣יךָ · your sons
    They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
  15. Jeremiah 6:1בְּנֵ֣י · O sons
    “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
  16. Jeremiah 6:21וּבָנִ֥ים · and sons
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”
  17. Jeremiah 7:18הַבָּנִ֞ים · The sons
    The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
  18. Jeremiah 7:30בְנֵי־ · the people
    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  19. Jeremiah 7:31בֶן־ · their sons; בְּנֵיהֶ֥ם
    They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
  20. So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
  21. Jeremiah 9:26בְּנֵ֤י
    Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
  22. Jeremiah 10:20בָּנַ֤י · My sons
    My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
  23. Jeremiah 11:22בְּנֵיהֶם֙ · their sons
    So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
  24. Jeremiah 13:14וְהַבָּנִ֛ים · and sons
    I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”
  25. Jeremiah 14:16וּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם · their sons
    And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
  26. Jeremiah 15:4בֶן־ · son
    I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
  27. Jeremiah 16:2בָּנִ֣ים · sons
    “You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”
  28. Jeremiah 16:3הַבָּנִים֙ · the sons
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
  29. Jeremiah 16:14בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites {up}
    Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  30. Jeremiah 16:15בְּנֵ֤י · the Israelites {up}
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
  31. Jeremiah 17:2בְּנֵיהֶם֙ · Even their children
    Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
  32. Jeremiah 17:19בְּנֵֽי־ · of the people
    This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
  33. Jeremiah 18:21בְּנֵיהֶ֜ם · hand their children
    Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
  34. Jeremiah 19:2בֶן־ · of Ben-hinnom
    …and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
  35. Jeremiah 19:5בְּנֵיהֶ֛ם · their children
    They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
  36. Jeremiah 19:6בֶן־ · of Ben-hinnom
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
  37. Jeremiah 19:9בְּנֵיהֶ֗ם · of their sons
    I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
  38. Jeremiah 20:1בֶּן־ · the son
    When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
  39. Jeremiah 20:15בֵּ֣ן
    Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
  40. Jeremiah 21:1בֶּן־ · son; בֶן־ · son
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
  41. Jeremiah 22:11בֶּן־ · son
    For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
  42. Jeremiah 22:18בֶּן־ · son
    Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
  43. Jeremiah 22:24בֶן־ · son
    “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
  44. Jeremiah 23:7בְּנֵ֥י · the Israelites {up}
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  45. Jeremiah 24:1בֶן־ · son
    After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
  46. Jeremiah 25:1בֶּן־ · son
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.