מִנְיָמִיןMinyâmîyn

Minjamin, the name of two Israelites

Pronunciation: min-yaw-meen' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4509

Meanings

1. priestly name

a. assigned to David's time (1 Chronicles 24:9)

b. Nehemiah's time (Nehemiah 10:8; Nehemiah 12:17; Nehemiah 12:41)

c. assigned to Hezekiah's time (2 Chronicles 31:15)

d. went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:5)

2. one of those who took strange wives (Ezra 10:25)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 31:15 His faithful assistants were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah. They distributed the gifts among the families of priests in their towns by their divisions, dividing the gifts fairly among old and young alike.
  • Nehemiah 12:17 Zicri was leader of the family of Abijah. There was also a leader of the family of Miniamin. Piltai was leader of the family of Moadiah.
  • Nehemiah 12:41 We went together with the trumpet-playing priests—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah—

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).