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  1. Tribe of Benjamin. 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 ...

  2. Mar 23, 2022 · This means this tribe would have military success ( Judges 20:15-25 ), which makes sense in light of the rest of the prophecy when it talks about prey and plunder. Also, as mentioned in the commentary above, this symbolically plays an importance in the lives of one of the most famous Benjamintes: the Apostle Paul (more on him in a moment).

  3. Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. In Genesis 49 the patriarch Jacob, sensing his impending death, gathers his sons to his bedside to bless them. Each son became the progenitor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Benjamin, as the youngest, receives his father’s blessing last: “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he ...

    • He Was Jacob’s 12th Son. Jacob famously had 12 sons, who became the progenitors of the 12 Tribes of Israel. Eleven of those sons were born in Charan, where Jacob had been tending the flocks of his father-in-law Laban.
    • His Birth Was Blessed by G‑d. Shortly before Benjamin’s birth, G‑d appeared to Jacob and blessed him to “be fruitful and multiply … and kings shall come forth from your loins.”
    • He Was Born When His Father Was 100. The name Benjamin can be broken into ben yaman (ימ”ן), which has the numeric value of 100, hinting at the fact that Benjamin was born when his father was 100 years old.3.
    • His Mother, Rachel, Died in Childbirth. Rachel, Jacob’s favorite wife, watched wistfully as her sister wife, Leah, and their two maids, Bilhah and Zilpah, gave birth to child after child.
  4. Benjamin, according to biblical tradition, one of the 12 tribes that constituted the people of Israel, and one of the two tribes (along with Judah) that later became the Jewish people. The tribe was named after the younger of two children born to Jacob (also called Israel) and his second wife, Rachel. After the death of Moses, Joshua led the ...

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  6. Nov 21, 2023 · Benjamin first appears in Genesis in the Hebrew Bible as the youngest son of Jacob and Rachel and the youngest of all of Jacob's 12 sons. Jacob, whose name is later changed to Israel, marries two ...

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