Strong's #1141: Bnayah (pronounced ben-aw-yaw')
or (prolonged) Bnayahuw {ben-aw-yaw'-hoo}; from 1129 and 3050; Jah has built; Benajah, the name of twelve Israelites:-- Benaiah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ּּ / ּ
benâyâh / benâyâhû
Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"
1) 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
2) the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David' s thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course
3) a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon
4) a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth
5) a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark
6) a Levite of the sons of Asaph
7) a Levite in the time of Hezekiah
8) Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives
9) the father of Pelatiah
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: from H1129 and H3050
Usage:
This word is used 42 times:
2 Samuel 8:18: " And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were"
2 Samuel 20:23: "all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites"
2 Samuel 23:20: " And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel,"
2 Samuel 23:22: "things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men."
2 Samuel 23:30: " Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,"
1 Kings 1:8: "the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei,"
1 Kings 1:10: "the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not."
1 Kings 1:26: "thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon,"
1 Kings 1:32: "the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before"
1 Kings 1:36: " And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen:"
1 Kings 1:38: "the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites,"
1 Kings 1:44: "the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites,"
1 Kings 2:25: "Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died."
1 Kings 2:29: "Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go,"
1 Kings 2:30: " And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus"
1 Kings 2:30: "but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word"
1 Kings 2:34: " So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house"
1 Kings 2:35: "put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over"
1 Kings 2:46: "commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell"
1 Kings 4:4: " And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:"
1 Chronicles 4:36: "and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,"
1 Chronicles 11:22: " Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel,"
1 Chronicles 11:24: "things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighty men."
1 Chronicles 11:31: "of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,"
1 Chronicles 15:18: "and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah,"
1 Chronicles 15:20: "and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;"
1 Chronicles 15:24: "and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets"
1 Chronicles 16:5: "and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries"
1 Chronicles 16:6: " Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant"
1 Chronicles 18:17: " And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David"
1 Chronicles 27:5: "of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest:"
1 Chronicles 27:6: " is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad"
1 Chronicles 27:14: "captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of"
1 Chronicles 27:34: "Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army"
2 Chronicles 20:14: "the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah,"
2 Chronicles 31:13: "and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah"
Ezra 10:25: "and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah."
Ezra 10:30: "of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel,"
Ezra 10:35: " Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,"
Ezra 10:43: "Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah."
Ezekiel 11:1: "the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people."
Ezekiel 11:13: "when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face,"
