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    Benjamin

    BEN-juh-min

    Meaning

    Son of the right hand

    Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Genesis

    What it points to

    Benjamin's name — 'son of the right hand' — speaks of the honored position we hold as God's children. What the world may label as sorrow, God transforms into blessing and strength.

    Verses · King James Version

    “And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.”

    Genesis 35:18

    “Of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews.”

    Philippians 3:5

    Most used in the 1980s (US records)

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