Benjamin
Of the tribe of Zabulon [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the
tribe of Joseph [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
Benjamin [were] sealed twelve thousand....
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(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of
Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of
Israel, Tell [us], how was this wickedness?...
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And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the
tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand
out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that
they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according
to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel....
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(Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין, Modern Binyamin Tiberian Binyāmîn בִּנְיָמִין) was
the last-born of Jacob's twelve sons, and the second (and
last) son of Rachel in the Book of Genesis.[1] He was the
founder of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. In the Biblical
account, unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born
in Canaan. He died in Egypt on the...
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ben'-ja-min (binyamin, or binyamin; Beniaein, Beniamin):
1. The Patriarch:
The youngest of Jacob's sons. His mother Rachel died in
giving him birth. As she felt death approaching she called
him Benoni, "son of my sorrow." Fearing, probably, that this
might bode evil for the child--for names have always
preserved a peculiar significance in the E...
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1. Son of Jacob by Rachel
Ge 35:18,24; 46:19
Taken into Egypt
Ge 42; 43; 44; 45
Prophecy concerning
Ge 49:27
Descendants of
Ge 46:21; Nu 26:38-41
-2. TRIBE OF
Census of
At Sinai
Nu 1:37
On the plain of Moab
Nu 26:41
Clans of
Nu 26:38-40; 1Ch 7:6-12; 8
Position of, in camp and march
Nu 2:18,22
Moses' benediction upon
De 32:12
All...
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(son of the right hand, fortunate).
1. The youngest of the children of Jacob. His birth
took place on the road between Bethel and Bethlehem, near the
latter, B.C. 1729. His mother, Rachel, died in the act of
giving him birth, naming him with her last breath Ben-oni (son
of my sorrow). This was by Jacob changed into Benjamin. Ge
35:16,18 Until...
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son of my right hand. (1.) The younger son of Jacob by
Rachel
(Gen. 35:18). His birth took place at Ephrath, on
the road
between Bethel and Bethlehem, at a short distance
from the
latter place. His mother died in giving him birth,
and with her
last breath named him Ben-oni, son of my pain, a
name which was
changed by his father into Benja...
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("son of my right hand"), as Jacob named him; first called
by his dying mother Rachel Benoni, son of my sorrow (compare
Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 2:17-18). Jesus the antitype was
first "a man of sorrows" (Isaiah 53:3), the mother's sorrows
attending tits birth also at Bethlehem; afterward "the man
of God's right hand," on whom God's hand was lai...
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