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1 Chronicles 16:5
Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Hebrew-English Dictionary
Jah has built; {Benajah} the name of twelve Israelites
Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"
1. one of David's mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army
2. the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course
3. a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon
4. a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth
5. a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark
6. a Levite of the sons of Asaph
7. a Levite in the time of Hezekiah
8. Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives
9. the father of Pelatiah
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.