Lexical Definition

‎בְּנָיָה‎ Bᵉnâyâh (ben-aw-yaw') Benaiah ^N:N-M-P
or בּנָיָהוּ Bnâyâhûw (ben-aw-yaw'-hoo); (prolonged) from ‎בָּנָה‎ and ‎יָהּ‎; Jah has built

Benaiah.

• § Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"
• Benajah, the name of twelve Israelites

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎בְּנָיָ֫הוּ‎, ‎בְּנָיָה‎ proper name, masculine (Yah hath built up, compare ‎יבנאל‎, Sabean ‎בנאל‎ DHM^{ZMG 1883, 15}) —

1. one of David's captains and heroes, son of Jehoiada, ‎בניהו‎ 2Sam 8:18; 2Sam 23:20; 2Sam 23:22; 1Kgs 1:8; 1Kgs 1:10; 1Kgs 1:26; 1Kgs 1:32; 1Kgs 1:36; 1Kgs 1:38; 1Kgs 1:44; 1Kgs 2:25; 1Kgs 2:29; 1Kgs 2:30 (twice in verse); 1Kgs 2:34; 1Kgs 2:35; 1Kgs 2:46; 1Kgs 4:4; 1Chr 11:24; 1Chr 18:17; 1Chr 27:5; 1Chr 27:6 compare v1Chr 27:34 (see Be); = ‎בניה‎ 2Sam 20:23; 1Chr 11:22.

2. one of David's thirty, ‎בניהו‎ 2Sam 23:30 = ‎בניה‎ 1Chr 11:31; 1Chr 27:14.

3. a Simeonite, ‎בניה‎ 1Chr 4:36.

4. Levites,
a. ‎בניהו‎ 1Chr 15:18; 1Chr 15:20; 1Chr 15:24
b. (id.) 2Chr 31:13
c. ‎בניה‎ 2Chr 20:14.

5. Israelites, ‎בניה‎
a. Ezra 10:25
b. vEzra 10:30
c. vEzra 10:35
d. vEzra 10:43
e. Ezek 11:13 = ‎בניהו‎ vEzek 11:1.

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