A name from Scripture
Benaiah
beh-NAY-uh
Meaning
The Lord has built; Yahweh has built up
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in 2 Samuel
What it points to
Benaiah embodies God-built courage — the kind of fearless faith that faces lions in snowstorms because it knows who builds its strength.
Verses · King James Version
“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.”
2 Samuel 23:20
“And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host.”
1 Kings 2:35