Bible Names

Baanah: meaning of the name

Baanah means “in the answer; in affliction.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Baanah in Hebrew and Greek

בַּעֲנָא H1195

Baʻănâʼ (bah-an-aw') — Banana, the name of four Israelite

the same as H1196 (בַּעֲנָה);

בַּעֲנָה H1196

Baʻănâh (bah-an-aw') — Baanah, the name of four Israelites

from a derivative of H6031 (עָנָה) with prepositional prefix; in affliction

People named Baanah in the Bible

Baanah in Scripture

“Baanah” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Samuel 4:2

    And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

  • 2 Samuel 4:5

    And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish–bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.

  • 2 Samuel 4:6

    And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

  • 2 Samuel 4:9

    And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

  • 2 Samuel 23:29

    Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

  • 1 Kings 4:16

    Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:

  • 1 Chronicles 11:30

    Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

  • Ezra 2:2

    Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: