Hebrew word · H3228

יָֽמִינִי

yemini

[Ben]jaminite

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

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);

father of: Bela (H1106A), Becher (H1071), Ashbel (H0788), Gera (H1617), Naaman (H5283), Ehi (H0278), Rosh (H7220), Muppim (H4649), Huppim (H2650H), Ard (H0714), Ahiram (H0297) and Jediael (H3043); also called Jamin at 1Sa.9.1,4; 22.7; 1x

Another spelling of bin.ya.min (בִּנְיָמִין "Benjamin" H1144)

§ Jaminites , of Jamin "the right hand"

the descendants of Jamin

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

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Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 26:12 הַיָּמִינִ֑י the Jaminite[s]

    These were the descendants of Simeon by their clans: The Nemuelite clan from Nemuel, the Jaminite clan from Jamin, the Jachinite clan from Jachin,

2 Samuel · 1

  1. 2 Samuel 20:1 יְמִינִ֑י a Jaminite

    Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”

    Here: A shortened form of 'Benjaminite' (also used of Saul's father in 1 Sam 9:1 and of Mordecai in Esther 2:5). It marks Sheba as coming from Saul's tribe, which still resented losing the throne to Judah's David.

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