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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Benjamin
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Baal Baal Peor Baal Zebub Babel/ Babylon Balaam Balak Barak Basemath Bathsheba Bathshua Beelzebub Beer lahai roi Beersheba Ben/Benjamin Ben-oni Beor Bera Bethel Bethlehem Bethuel Bezalel Bileam Bilhah Birsha Boaz Buz |
Benjamin
Benjamin is the youngest child of Jacob (he now has twelve sons and a daughter named Dinah). Benjamin is the second son of Rachel and she dies giving birth to him. With her dying breath she names the boy Ben-oni, but father Jacob swiftly renames him Benjamin. |
(ben 254), son (also in the sense of member of a group).
(yamin 872a), meaning right hand, but with many co-notations. The right hand was seen as the seat of one's power. Hence the many references to God's right hand. The right hand also denotes the south or a southern direction (when facing east, which is the past - west is the future). The country of Yemen thanks its name to this usage; literally it means South Land. In this same sense, the left hand came to denote the north.
