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Selected Verse: Genesis 35:18 - Strong Concordance

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Ge 35:18 Strong Concordance And it came to pass, as her soul [05315] was in departing [03318], (for she died [04191] that she called [07121] his name [08034] Benoni [01126]: but his father [01] called [07121] him Benjamin [01144].
  King James 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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
She called his name Ben-oni--The dying mother gave this name to her child, significant of her circumstances; but Jacob changed his name into Benjamin. This is thought by some to have been originally Benjamin, "a son of days," that is, of old age. But with its present ending it means "son of the right hand," that is, particularly dear and precious.
 
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34 And he took [05375] and sent messes [04864] unto them from before him [06440]: but Benjamin's [01144] mess [04864] was five [02568] times [03027] so much as [07235] any of theirs. And they drank [08354], and were merry [07937] with him.
4 Surely [0403] he hath borne [05375] our griefs [02483], and carried [05445] our sorrows [04341]: yet we did esteem [02803] him stricken [05060], smitten [05221] of God [0430], and afflicted [06031].
3 He is despised [0959] and rejected [02310] of men [0376]; a man [0376] of sorrows [04341], and acquainted [03045] with grief [02483]: and we hid as it were [04564] our faces [06440] from him; he was despised [0959], and we esteemed [02803] him not.
22 To all of them he gave [05414] each man [0376] changes [02487] of raiment [08071]; but to Benjamin [01144] he gave [05414] three [07969] hundred [03967] pieces of silver [03701], and five [02568] changes [02487] of raiment [08071].
21 And when Rehoboam [07346] was come [0935] to Jerusalem [03389], he assembled [06950] all the house [01004] of Judah [03063], with the tribe [07626] of Benjamin [01144], an hundred [03967] and fourscore [08084] thousand [0505] chosen men [0977], which were warriors [06213] [04421], to fight [03898] against the house [01004] of Israel [03478], to bring [07725] the kingdom [04410] again [07725] to Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010].
8 Judah [03063], thou art he whom thy brethren [0251] shall praise [03034]: thy hand [03027] shall be in the neck [06203] of thine enemies [0341]; thy father's [01] children [01121] shall bow down [07812] before thee.
9 Judah [03063] is a lion's [0738] whelp [01482]: from the prey [02964], my son [01121], thou art gone up [05927]: he stooped down [03766], he couched [07257] as a lion [0738], and as an old lion [03833]; who shall rouse him up [06965]?
10 The sceptre [07626] shall not depart [05493] from Judah [03063], nor a lawgiver [02710] from between his feet [07272], until [03588] Shiloh [07886] come [0935]; and unto him shall the gathering [03349] of the people [05971] be.
11 Binding [0631] his foal [05895] unto the vine [01612], and his ass's [0860] colt [01121] unto the choice vine [08321]; he washed [03526] his garments [03830] in wine [03196], and his clothes [05497] in the blood [01818] of grapes [06025]:
12 His eyes [05869] shall be red [02447] with wine [03196], and his teeth [08127] white [03836] with milk [02461].
27 Benjamin [01144] shall ravin [02963] as a wolf [02061]: in the morning [01242] he shall devour [0398] the prey [05706], and at night [06153] he shall divide [02505] the spoil [07998].
35 (Yea [1161], a sword [4501] shall pierce through [1330] thy [4675] own [846] soul [5590] also [2532],) that [3704] the thoughts [1261] of [1537] many [4183] hearts [2588] [302] may be revealed [601].
20 And we said [0559] unto my lord [0113], We have [03426] a father [01], an old man [02205], and a child [03206] of his old age [02208], a little one [06996]; and his brother [0251] is dead [04191], and he alone is left [03498] of his mother [0517], and his father [01] loveth [0157] him.
17 Let thy hand [03027] be upon the man [0376] of thy right hand [03225], upon the son [01121] of man [0120] whom thou madest strong [0553] for thyself.