Hebrew word · H1256

בְּרָאיָה

uverayah

Beraiah

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.21;

son of: Shimei (H8096N);

brother of: Jakim (H3356), Zichri (H2147H), Zabdi (H2067H), Elienai (H0462), Zillethai (H6769), Eliel (H0447H), Adaiah (H5718H) and Shimrath (H8119)

§ Beraiah = "Jehovah has created"

son of Shimhi, a chief man of Benjamin

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 8:21 וּבְרָאיָ֛ה and Beraiah

    Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.

    Here: A personal name that probably means "Yah has created" (from *bara'*, the verb of Genesis 1:1). This is the only place in the Bible where the name appears.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.