Hebrew

[Ben]jaminite

יְמִינִיStrong’s H3227

yemini (ye-mi-ni)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yemini is the Hebrew word usually translated “jaminite”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.”

1 Samuel 9:1 KJV

Meaning

Someone descended from the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.35.18

How it's translated

a jaminite 1
jaminite 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

1 Samuel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

[Ben]jaminite (yemini)

Explore in Scripture

1 Samuel 9:4And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.

Hebrew dictionary

יְמִינִי yemini · [Ben]jaminite

Someone descended from 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).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.