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Genesis 49:27
“Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
בִּנְיָמִיןBinyâmîyn · bin-yaw-mene'
H1144 · Hebrew
H1144 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
- Derivation
- from H1121 (בֵּן) and H3225 (יָמִין); son of (the) right hand;
- KJV renderings
- Benjamin.
- Grammar
- בִּנְיָמִין֙ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 167 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 35:18Genesis 35:24Genesis 42:4Genesis 42:36Genesis 43:14
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בִּנְיָמִין here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.