According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִן, Modern: Bīnyamīn, Tiberian: Bīnyāmīn) was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the patriarch Jacob (later given the name Israel) and his wife Rachel.[1] In the Samaritan Pentateuch the name appears as Binyamīm (Hebrew: בנימים).
The Tribe of Benjamin, located to the north of Judah but to the south of the Kingdom of Israel, is significant in biblical narratives as a source of various Israelite leaders, including the first Israelite king, Saul, as well as earlier tribal leaders in the period of the Judges. In the period of the judges, they feature in an episode in which a civil war results in their near-extinction as a tribe. After the brief period of the United Kingdom of Israel, Benjamin became part of the southern Kingdom of Judah following the split into two kingdoms. After the destruction of the northern kingdom, Benjamin was fully absorbed into the southern kingdom. After Judah was destroyed by the Babylonians in the early sixth century BCE and its population deported, Benjamin as an organized tribe faded from history.
Members of the tribe are referred to as Benjamites or Benjaminites.
^Lemche, Niels Peter (2004). Historical dictionary of ancient Israel. Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-0-8108-4848-1.
Torah, the TribeofBenjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִן, Modern: Bīnyamīn, Tiberian: Bīnyāmīn) was one of the Twelve Tribesof Israel. The tribe was descended...
tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite TribeofBenjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical...
to the Tribeof Ephraim was at the center of Canaan, west of the Jordan, south of the territory of Manasseh, and north of the TribeofBenjamin. The region...
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repudiation of a monarchic line arising from the Southern TribeofBenjamin due to the sinfulness of King Saul, which was then bestowed onto the tribeof Judah...
Hebrew Bible, a city in ancient Israel in the land allocated to the tribeofBenjamin. It was located near Gibeon and Mizpah to the West, Gibeah to the...
the first king of Israel and, like Paul, a member of the TribeofBenjamin; the Latin name Paulus, meaning small, was not a result of his conversion as...
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border city located between the territory of the tribe of Benjamin and that of the tribeof Ephraim, which first belonged to the Benjaminites and was...
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the tribesof Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, and Ephraim — all but Judah, Benjamin, and some members of the priestly...
Anathoth /ˈænəˌθɒθ/ is the name of one of the Levitical cities given to "the children of Aaron" in the tribeofBenjamin (Joshua 21:13–18; 1 Chronicles...
from the Tribeof Levi at all, but from the TribeofBenjamin. The following lineage appears in 1 Chronicles 5:29–31: Aaron Eleazar, son of Aaron Phinehas...
son of Saul, king of Israel, of the tribeofBenjamin, and David was the son of Jesse of Bethlehem, of the tribeof Judah, and Jonathan's presumed rival...
tribesof Judah and Benjamin remained to form the rump kingdom of Judah, loyal to Rehoboam. Jeroboam rebuilt and fortified Shechem as the capital of the...
figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribesof Israel. Rachel's father...
because of the expectation and hope for rains. In Jewish Rabbinic literature, the month of Kislev is believed to correspond to the TribeofBenjamin. 25 Kislev...
of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described in Tanna Devei Eliyahu as being the son of Jair, of the tribeof...
and out of Abimelech's reach"; and the Pulpit Commentary suggests it is "either the same as Beeroth, among the heights of the tribeofBenjamin (Joshua...
the tribeofBenjamin between Nob and Hazor (modern Tell el-Qedah) (Nehemiah 11:32). It is one of the localities inhabited by the tribeofBenjamin after...
name meaning "wolf" in Yiddish. Velvel is often associated with the tribeofBenjamin, who is described in the Bible as a wolf, i.e. a mighty and fearless...
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