Ben-ammi
בֶּן־עַמִּיStrong’s H1151ben-ammi (ben-am-mi)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ben-ammi is the Hebrew word usually translated “ben-” and “ammi”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.”
Meaning
- A man of Ammon living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.19.38
How it's translated
- ben- 1
- ammi 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־עַמִּי ben-ammi · Ben-ammi
A man of Ammon living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.19.38; son of: Lot (H3876) and his second daughter (H3876I); half-brother of Moab (H4124H) § Ben-ami = "son of my people" son of Lot, born to his second daughter, progenitor of the Ammonites
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.