Etymology?:
from bēn בֵּן ‘son / Beno’ and yāmīn יָמִין ‘right’
Roots:
בן
ימין
binyāmīn pr n m pers
Benjamin = "son of the right hand"
1) Jacob's and Rachel's youngest son, Joseph's full brother
2) son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin
3) a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife
4) the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob
Mentioned in Genesis 35:18, 42:36, 42:4, 43:14, 43:29, 45:12, 45:14, 46:21, 43:15, 43:16, 49:27, 43:34, 44:12, 45:22, 46:19, 35:24 Exodus 1:3 Numbers 1:36, 1:11, 2:22, 7:60, 10:24, 26:38, 26:41, 34:21, 1:37, 13:9 Deuteronomy 27:12, 33:12 Joshua 21:4, 18:28, 18:20, 21:17, 18:11, 18:21 Judges 20:13, 20:28, 20:23, 21:6, 20:31, 5:14, 20:40, 20:3, 20:4, 20:10, 20:15, 20:17, 20:20, 20:21, 20:25, 20:35, 20:36, 20:39, 20:41, 20:44, 20:46, 20:48, 21:1, 21:21, 20:24, 20:30, 20:32, 21:13, 21:23, 20:18, 20:12, 21:16, 21:17, 21:18, 21:20, 20:14, 10:9, 19:14, 21:14, 1:21, 20:43, 21:15 1 Samuel 10:2, 9:1, 4:12, 13:2, 9:16, 13:15, 9:21, 10:20, 10:21, 13:16, 14:16 2 Samuel 21:14, 2:25, 2:31, 3:19, 4:2, 19:18, 2:15, 2:9, 23:29 1 Kings 15:22, 12:23, 4:18, 12:21 Jeremiah 38:7, 32:8, 37:13, 33:13, 1:1, 17:26, 32:44, 37:12, 20:2, 6:1 Ezekiel 48:23, 48:24, 48:32, 48:22 Hosea 5:8 Obadiah 1:19 Zechariah 14:10 Psalms 80:3, 68:28 Ezra 1:5, 10:9, 4:1, 10:32 Nehemiah 3:23, 11:7, 11:4, 11:31, 11:36, 12:34 1 Chronicles 12:2, 27:21, 7:10, 8:40, 12:30, 8:1, 6:50, 9:4, 9:3, 2:2, 6:45, 21:6, 11:31, 12:17, 7:6, 9:7 2 Chronicles 25:5, 34:32, 15:8, 31:1, 11:10, 11:3, 34:9, 14:7, 15:9, 17:17, 11:1, 15:2, 11:23, 11:12