1. בְּנוֹ
The corpus record — Hebrew
בָנִ֑ים
ben · n.pr.m
his son, his son
Generated live from the audited Hebrew corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 4,942 · 161.09/10k
What it meant
בְּנוֹ 1 Ch 24:26, 27 as n.pr.m. in AV, RV, but render: the sons of Jaaziah his son, & the sons of Merari by Jaaziah his son, cf. VB & Be Öt.
2. בֵּן
בֵּן 4870 n.m. son
1 son, male child, born of a woman
2 children (male and female)
3 youth, young men
4 the young of animals
5 of plant shoots
6 fig. of lifeless things, sparks, stars, arrows
7
a member of a guild, order or class
b of animals son of (the) herd
8 ב׳ as n. relat. followed by word of quality, characteristic, etc.
9 n. relat. of age
3. בֵּן
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
In the wild
- בָּנָ֔י/ו 1 Chronicles 10:12 (BHS)
- בֶּן 1 Chronicles 10:14 (BHS)
- בְּנֵ֥י 1 Chronicles 10:2 (BHS)
- בָנָ֑י/ו 1 Chronicles 10:2 (BHS)
- בָּנָ֔י/ו 1 Chronicles 10:6 (BHS)
- וּ/בָנָ֑י/ו 1 Chronicles 10:7 (BHS)
6 of 4,942 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.