Bible Names

Benaiah: meaning of the name

Benaiah means “son of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Benaiah in Hebrew and Greek

בְּנָיָה H1141

Bᵉnâyâh (ben-aw-yaw') — Benajah, the name of twelve Israelites

or בּנָיָהוּ; (prolonged) from H1129 (בָּנָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has built;

People named Benaiah in the Bible

Benaiah in Scripture

“Benaiah” appears in 41 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Samuel 8:18

    And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief rulers.

  • 2 Samuel 20:23

    Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

  • 2 Samuel 23:20

    And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

  • 2 Samuel 23:22

    These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.

  • 2 Samuel 23:30

    Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

  • 1 Kings 1:8

    But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

  • 1 Kings 1:10

    But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.

  • 1 Kings 1:26

    But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.