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    Benaiah

    beh-NAY-uh

    Hebrew
    Boy
    In the King James Bible
    Meaning
    The Lord has built; Yahweh has built up
    Origin
    Hebrew
    Is it in the Bible?
    Yes — Benaiah appears in the King James Bible, including 2 Samuel 23:20.
    First appears in
    2 Samuel — The united and divided kingdom
    Peak US usage
    No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
    Spiritual meaning
    Benaiah embodies God-built courage — the kind of fearless faith that faces lions in snowstorms because it knows who builds its strength.
    King James verses
    • 2 Samuel 23:20

      "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow."

    • 1 Kings 2:35

      "And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host."

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