Benjamin

From the Hebrew name בִּנְיָמִין (Binyamin) meaning "son of the south" or "son of the right hand", from the roots בֵּן (ben) meaning "son" and יָמִין (yamin) meaning "right hand, south" [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] . Benjamin in the Old Testament was the twelfth and youngest son of Jacob and the founder of one of the southern tribes of the Hebrews. He was originally named בֶּן־אוֹנִי (Ben-ʾoni) meaning "son of my sorrow" by his mother Rachel, who died shortly after childbirth, but it was later changed by his father (see Genesis 35:18).As an English name, Benjamin came into general use after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), an American statesman, inventor, scientist and philosopher.

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1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h1144, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h1144.
2. Withycombe, Elizabeth Gidley. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford, 1945, page 22.
3. Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford, 1990, page 38.
4. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h1121, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h1121.
5. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h3225, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h3225.

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