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Benaiah

Mentioned 1054–1014 BC traditional (Jones)

2 Sam. 23:30; 1 Chr. 11:31.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Tagged in
3 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Benaiah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. likely location: Pirathon3
  2. likely location: Gaash1
  3. possible location: Gibeah1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1079–989 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 4 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

3 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 2 Samuel1
  2. 1 Chronicles2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBBenaiah 44
KJVBenaiah 42
ASVBenaiah 42

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 3 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Samuel1 verse
  1. 23:30

    Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash,

1 Chronicles2 verses
  1. 11:31

    Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

  2. 27:14

    The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

2 Sam. 23:30; 1 Chr. 11:31.