בֵּןbên

בֵּן: son

Pronunciation: bane · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1121

Meanings

1. son, male child, born of a woman (Genesis 4:25; Genesis 16:11; Genesis 16:15)

a. son of his mother, sons of thy father (Genesis 43:29; Genesis 27:29; Judges 8:19)

b. cousins (Numbers 36:11)

c. my son (1 Samuel 3:6; 1 Samuel 3:16; 1 Samuel 4:16)

e. son of man (Psalms 4:3; Psalms 49:3; Psalms 62:10)

f. thy grandson, sons of the fourth generation (Exodus 10:2; Deuteronomy 6:2; Judges 8:22)

h. sons of one's youth, one born in my house (Genesis 37:3; Psalms 127:4; Genesis 15:3)

i. this son of a murderer, ib. (1 Samuel 20:30; 2 Kings 6:32; Job 30:8)

2. children, (male and female) (Genesis 3:16; Genesis 21:7; Exodus 21:5)

3. youth, young men (Proverbs 7:7; Song of Solomon 2:3)

4. the young, of animals (Leviticus 22:28; Deuteronomy 22:6; Deuteronomy 22:7)

5. of plant-shoots (Genesis 49:22; Psalms 80:16)

6. of lifeless things (Job 5:7; Job 38:32; Job 41:2)

7.

a. member of a guild, order or class (1 Kings 20:35; 2 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 2:5)

b. son of (the) herd (1 Samuel 14:32; Leviticus 9:2; Genesis 18:7)

8. as relative noun followed by word of quality, characteristic, etc. (1 Samuel 14:52; 1 Samuel 18:17; 2 Samuel 2:7)

9. noun relative of age

בְּנוֺ: proper name, masculine: his son, as proper name, masculine in AV RV, but render (1 Chronicles 24:26; 1 Chronicles 24:27)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4,935 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 3:16 Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”
  • Genesis 4:17 Cain had sexual relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain founded a city, which he named Enoch, after his son.
  • Genesis 4:25 Adam had sexual relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said, “God has granted me another son in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.”
  • Genesis 4:26 When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. At that time people first began to worship the Lord by name.
  • Genesis 5:4 After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
  • Genesis 5:7 After the birth of Enosh, Seth lived another 807 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).