Hebrew

[Ben]jaminite

יָֽמִינִיStrong’s H3228

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.

“The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:”

Numbers 26:12 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

the jaminite 1
a jaminite 1

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

Where it's used most

Numbers 1
2 Samuel 1

2 books in all.

Related words

[Ben]jaminite (yemini)

Explore in Scripture

2 Samuel 20:1And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

Hebrew dictionary

יָֽמִינִי 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.