Ben-oni
בֶּן־אוֹנִ֑יStrong’s H1126ben-oni (ben-o-ni)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ben-oni is the Hebrew word usually translated “ben-” and “oni”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.35.18
How it's translated
- ben- 1
- oni 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בֶּן־אוֹנִ֑י ben-oni · Ben-oni
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.35.18; son of: Israel (H3478) and Rachel (H7354); brother of: Joseph (H3130); half-brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783); …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ben” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEN or BEN'-NUT, noun
A purgative fruit or nut, the largest of which resembles a filbert, yielding an oil used in pharmacy.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.