Strong's H1141 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: בְּנָיָה (Bᵉnâyâh)

Pronunciation: ben-aw-yaw'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Derivation: or בּנָיָהוּ (Bnâyâhûw); (prolonged) from בָּנָה (bânâh) [H1129] and יָהּ (Yâhh) [H3050]; Jah has built;

Definition: Benajah, the name of twelve Israelites

KJV Renderings: Benaiah.

Senses

1. Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"
2. one of David's mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army
3. the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course
4. a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon
5. a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth
6. a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark
7. a Levite of the sons of Asaph
8. a Levite in the time of Hezekiah
9. Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives
10. the father of Pelatiah

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.