Genesis 35:18
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.
Biblical meaning of the name Benjamin
Meaning
“Son of the right hand”
From the Hebrew Binyamin (בִּנְיָמִין): ben (son) and yamin (right hand, the side of honour and strength). Rachel, dying in childbirth, called the boy Benoni, “son of my sorrow”; Jacob changed his name to Benjamin.
In the original:בִּנְיָמִין Binyâmîyn · Strong H1144
Who was Benjamin in the Bible?
Benjamin was the youngest of Jacob’s twelve sons and the only one born in the land of Canaan. He gave his name to a tribe of Israel, from which came King Saul and, centuries later, the apostle Paul.
Where the name appears
Philippians 3:5
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
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