01141 B@nayah {ben-aw-yaw'} or (prolonged) B@nayahuw {ben-aw-yaw'-hoo}
from 01129 and 03050;; n pr m
AV - Benaiah 42; 42
Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"
1) one of David's mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a
Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful
to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the
place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army
2) the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors,
and the captain of the eleventh monthly course
3) a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon
4) a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth
5) a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before
the ark
6) a Levite of the sons of Asaph
7) a Levite in the time of Hezekiah
8) Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives
9) the father of Pelatiah