H1141 H1141
Benaiah — personal name meaning 'Yah has built up,' borne by David's warrior-captain and several others
Benayahu (also spelled Benayah) is a theophoric name combining banah ('to build') with the divine name Yah, yielding 'Yah has built up.' Its most prominent bearer is Benaiah son of Jehoiada, one of David's elite warriors who slew two Moabite champions and a lion in a snowy pit (2 Sam 23:20-22), and who later executed Solomon's rivals to secure the throne (1 Kgs 2:25, 34, 46). The name also belongs to one of the thirty mighty men (2 Sam 23:30), a Simeonite chief (1 Chr 4:36), several Levites, and men who married foreign wives in Ezra's time.
Senses
1. Benaiah (personal name) — The proper name Benayahu/Benayah ('Yah has built up'), borne by at least eight individuals. Most notable is the son of Jehoiada who commanded David's Cherethites and Pelethites (2 Sam 8:18; 20:23) and secured Solomon's accession (1 Kgs 1-2). All 42 occurrences, in both the -yahu and -yah spellings, denote a single personal name. Spanish 'Benaias,' French 'Benaja.' 42×
AR["بَنَايَا", "بَنَايَاهُو"]·ben["বনায়", "বনায়কে", "বনায়ের", "বেনায়া"]·DE["Benaiah", "Benaja", "[בניה]"]·EN["Benaiah", "Benayah", "Benayahu"]·FR["Benaja", "Benaïa"]·heb["בניה", "בניהו"]·HI["बनायाह", "बनायाहका", "बनायाहू", "बनायाहू-ने"]·ID["-Benaya", "Benaya"]·IT["Benaia"]·jav["Benaya", "Bénaya", "Bénayahu"]·KO["베나야", "베나야후", "브나야", "브나야가", "브나야를", "브나야와", "브나야의", "브나야후"]·PT["Benayah", "Benayahu"]·RU["Бенайи", "Бенайя", "Бенайяху", "Беная", "Бенаягу", "Бенаяу"]·ES["Benayah", "Benayahu", "Benaía", "Benaías"]·SW["Benaya", "mfalme", "mwana-wa", "na-Benaya"]·TR["Benaya", "Benaya'nın", "Benaya'yı", "Benayah'nın", "Benayahu"]·urd["بنایاہ", "بنایاہ-نے", "بنایاہ-کا", "بنایاہو-نے"]
2 Sam 8:18, 2 Sam 20:23, 2 Sam 23:20, 2 Sam 23:22, 2 Sam 23:30, 1 Kgs 1:8, 1 Kgs 1:10, 1 Kgs 1:26, 1 Kgs 1:32, 1 Kgs 1:36, 1 Kgs 1:38, 1 Kgs 1:44 (+30 more)
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בְּנָיָ֫הוּ, בְּנָיָה n.pr.m. (Yah hath built up, cf. יבנאל, Sab. בנאל DHMZMG 1883, 15)— 1. one of David’s captains and heroes, son of Jehoiada, בניהו 2 S 8:18; 23:20, 22 1 K 1:8, 10, 26, 32, 36, 38, 44; 2:25, 29, 30(×2), 34, 35, 46; 4:4 1 Ch 11:24; 18:17; 27:5, 6 cf. v 34 (v. Be); = בניה 2 S 20:23 1 Ch 11:22. 2. one of David’s thirty, בניהו 2 S 23:30 = בניה 1 Ch 11:31; 27:14. 3. a Simeonite,…