What is the Strong's number for Ben?

The Strong's number for Ben (בֵּן) is H1121. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Ben (Strong’s H1121): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Ben mean?

Ben (בֵּן, Strong's H1121) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.). The King James Bible translates it as afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ( ) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, ( ) man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, ( ) people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.

Ben (בֵּן) is the Hebrew word numbered H1121 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.). In the King James Bible it is translated afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to.

בֵּן

bên · Hebrew

Strong’s H1121 · bane

Original wordבֵּן
Transliterationbên
Pronunciationbane
Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
Strong’s numberH1121
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)

Derivation. from H1129;

How the King James Bible translates it

afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ( ) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, ( ) man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, ( ) people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Ben appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Ben (H1121) stands behind 4,878 English renderings in 3,632 verses across 37 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 1 Chronicles (703), Numbers (591), Genesis (365).

How the King James Bible renders Ben, by count

son1,897 of 4,878 (39 percent)
children1,540 of 4,878 (32 percent)
sons1,068 of 4,878 (22 percent)
old135 of 4,878 (3 percent)
first51 of 4,878 (1 percent)
young30 of 4,878 (1 percent)

Three places to read Ben

Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Joshua 7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
1 Chronicles 23:8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Ben in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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