Definition

{a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense}

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H1121 (בֵּן)

Word family

• בֵּן bên

How the KJV renders it

• child
• son
• young

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.