Benaiah
Sign in to saveBenaiah (, "Yahweh builds up") is a common name in the Hebrew Bible.
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6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Benaiah, son of Jehoiada
- Gravesite
- Other Benaiahs
- Footnotes
- References
Benaiah (, "Yahweh builds up") is a common name in the Hebrew Bible.
== Etymology == In the etymology of the name, the first part of Benaiah comes from the root-verb בנה (bana), which is a common Hebrew verb meaning "to build". The second part of Benaiah is יה (Yah), which is not a derivative of the Tetragrammaton, but a contraction of it (ie, the first and last consonants of יהוה are contracted as יה).