בְּנָיָה

Benaiah = &quot Jehovah has built&quot or &quot Yahweh has built up&quot , one of David&#39 s mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful to Solomon during Adonijah&#39 s attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army, the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David&#39 s thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course, a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon, a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth, a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, a Levite in the time of Hezekiah, Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives, the father of Pelatiah