Definition

Benajah, the name of twelve Israelites

Etymology

or בּנָיָהוּ; (prolonged) from H1129 (בָּנָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has built;

Word family

• בָּנָה bânâh
• יָהּ Yâhh

How the KJV renders it

• Benaiah

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.