noun · masculine
beniamin
Strong’sG958
Benjamin
stem beniamin-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Βενιαμίν, (Rec. -μίν), ὁ, indecl.
(Heb. בֶּנְיָמִין),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G958 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidben-ee-am-een'
Benjamin, an Israelite
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesBenjamin.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Benjamin:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | beniamin | beniamin |
| object accusative | beniamin | beniamin |
| direct address vocative | beniamin | beniamin |
| of, belonging to genitive | beniamin4×Βενιαμίν | beniamin |
| to, for dative | beniamin | beniamin |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
beniamin“Benjamin”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Acts 13:21… Saoul huion Kis, andron ek fulau Beniamin, eteim tesserakonta;… of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
Romans 11:1… Israēlitos amō, ek spermeu Abraam, fulau Beniamin.… of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Philippians 3:5peritoma oktaēmeros, ek geneu Israēl, fulau Beniamin, Hebraios ek Hebraioiu, kata nomon Farisaios,… of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to …
Revelation 7:8… fulau Iōsēf dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Beniamin dōdeka chiliadais sfragizorēntois.… Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.