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. Hosea 9:13בָּנָֽיו׃ · his children
    I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
  2. Hosea 10:9בְּנֵ֥י · the sons
    Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
  3. Hosea 10:14בָּנִ֖ים · their children
    …the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
  4. Hosea 11:1לִבְנִֽי׃ · My son
    When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
  5. Hosea 11:10בָנִ֖ים · His children
    They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
  6. Hosea 13:13בֵן֙ · son; בָּנִֽים׃ · he
    Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb.
  7. Hosea 13:15בֵּ֥ן · among
    Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
  8. Joel 1:1בֶּן־ · son
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:
  9. Joel 1:3לִבְנֵיכֶ֣ם · to your children; וּבְנֵיכֶם֙ · let your children; לִבְנֵיהֶ֔ם · tell it to their children; וּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם · and their children
    Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
  10. Joel 1:12בְּנֵ֥י
    The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
  11. Joel 2:23וּבְנֵ֣י · O children
    Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
  12. Joel 2:28בְּנֵיכֶ֣ם · Your sons
    And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
  13. Joel 3:6וּבְנֵ֤י · the people; וּבְנֵ֣י · to the Greeks; לִבְנֵ֣י
    You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
  14. Joel 3:8בְּנֵיכֶ֣ם · your sons; בְּנֵ֣י · of the people
    I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
  15. Joel 3:16לִבְנֵ֥י · for the people
    The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
  16. Joel 3:19בְּנֵ֣י · done to the people
    Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
  17. Amos 1:1בֶּן־ · son
    These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
  18. Amos 1:13בְנֵֽי־ · of the Ammonites
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
  19. Amos 2:11מִבְּנֵיכֶם֙ · from your sons; בְּנֵ֥י · O children
    I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
  20. Amos 3:1בְּנֵ֣י · O children
    Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
  21. Amos 3:12בְּנֵ֣י · the Israelites
    This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
  22. Amos 4:5בְּנֵ֣י · [you] children
    Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
  23. Amos 7:14בֶן־ · [nor was I] the son
    “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
  24. Amos 7:17וּבָנֶ֤יךָ · and your sons
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
  25. Amos 9:7כִבְנֵי֩; בְּנֵ֥י · O children
    “Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
  26. Obadiah 1:12לִבְנֵֽי־ · over the people
    But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
  27. Obadiah 1:20לִבְנֵ֨י
    And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
  28. Jonah 1:1בֶן־ · son
    Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
  29. Jonah 4:10שֶׁבִּן־ · in a night; וּבִן־ · in a night
    But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
  30. Micah 1:16בְּנֵ֖י · children
    Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
  31. Micah 5:3בְּנֵ֥י · the children
    Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.
  32. Micah 5:7לִבְנֵ֥י · for mankind
    Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
  33. Micah 6:5בֶּן־ · son
    My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
  34. Micah 6:6בְּנֵ֥י · with year-old
    With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
  35. Micah 7:6בֵן֙ · a son
    For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
  36. Zephaniah 1:1בֶּן־ · son; בֶן־ · the son; בֶּן־ · the son; בֶּן־ · the son; בֶן־ · son
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah: