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| '''Benjamin''' (]: בִּנְיָמִין; ]: ''Binyamin''; ] ''Binyāmîn'') is a ] figure. The name literally translates to "] of ]," generally taken to mean "son of my right hand" but in some ] traditions "son of the right side " or "son of the south," the youngest son of ] and ] (Genesis 35:18). | |||
| His birth took place on the road between ] and ], characterized later by Christian writers as at a short distance from ], because many centuries later the prophet ] referred to "Bethlehem Ephrata." There is no other connection with Bethlehem. His mother died in childbirth, and with her last breath named him ''ben-oni'' ("son of my pain"), an ill-omened name which was changed by his father into Benjamin. His posterity were the ], sometimes translated "Benjamites" (Genesis 49:27; Deuteronomy 33:12; Joshua 18:21). | |||
| The tribe of Benjamin at ] was the smallest but one (Numbers 1:36-1:37; Psalms 68:27). During the march its place was along with ] and ] on the west of the tabernacle. At the entrance into ] it counted 45,600 warriors. It has been inferred by some from the words of Jacob (Genesis 49:27) that the figure of a wolf was on the tribal standard: "Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he shall devour the prey, at evening he shall divide the spoil." | |||
| This tribe is mentioned in ] 11:1 and ] 3:5. | |||
| The inheritance of this tribe lay immediately to the south of that of ], and was about 26 miles in length and 12 in breadth. Its eastern boundary was the ]. ] intervened between it and the ]. Its chief towns are named in ] 18:21-28. | |||
| The history of the tribe contains a sad record of a desolating ] in which they were engaged with the other eleven tribes; they were almost exterminated (Judg. 20:20, 21; 21:10). (See GIBEAH ¯T0001476.) | |||
| The first king of the Jews was ], a Benjamite. A close alliance was formed between this tribe and that of ] in the time of ] (] 19:16, 17), which continued after his death (] 11:13; 12:20). After the ] these two tribes formed the great body of the Jewish nation (Ezra 1:5; 10:9), and to this day the other ten are referred to as the ]. The tribe of Benjamin was famous for its archers (] 20:20, 36; ] 1:22; 1 ] 8:40; 12:2) and slingers (] 20:6). | |||
| The gate of Benjamin, on the north side of ] (Jer. 37:13; 38:7; Zech. 14:10), was so called because it led in the direction of the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. It is called by ] (20:2) "the high gate of Benjamin"; also "the gate of the children of the people" (17:19). (Comp. 2 Kings 14:13.) | |||
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| *''Easton's Bible Dictionary'', 1897. | |||
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| * Benjamin. Material on the tribe, its territory, Rabbinical tradition and Islam, where Benjamin is not specifically mentioned in the ''Qur'an.'' | |||
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