בֵּן
ben
son
Strong's H1121NounHebrewTWOT 254Family

בֵּן (ben) is a Hebrew noun meaning son. It appears 4942 times in 37 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1121).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 254)

Range of meaning (TWOT 254)son; children; youth, young men; the young; sparks, stars, arrows; member, son of (the) herd; afflicted, age, ed one, appointed to, one born, bough, branch, breed, bullock, calf, child, colt, daughter, firstborn, foal…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

בֵּן noun, masculine: son

Strong's H1121 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.)
KJV:afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 3:16Exodus 1:1Leviticus 1:2

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