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בְּנֵי־בְרַק

Bene-barak

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Bene-barak’ fuller range ↓

H1139 Strong's Hebrew
Bᵉnêy-Bᵉraq Transliteration
/ben-ay'-ber-ak'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“Bene-barak” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name בניברק (Bᵉnêy-Bᵉraq). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Joshua, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Joshua 19:45. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Bene-barak
Modern gloss
Bene-barak
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H1139 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Joshua 19:45
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Joshua 19:45.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Beneberak 1×
  • American Standard Version: Bene-berak 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Bene-berak 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bene berak 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H1139 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Beneberak” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H1139 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Bene-berak” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H1139 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Bene-berak” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H1139 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Bene berak” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Bene-barak = "sons of lightning"
  2. a city in Dan

Word origin

בְּנֵי־בְרַק n.pr.loc. city of Dan Jos 19:45

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from בן (bên) (H1121) — son.

Part of speech: Proper Name Location


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H1139 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
בְרַ֖ק Noun, Proper Joshua 19:45 1
וּ/בְנֵֽי Noun, Proper Joshua 19:45 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1139, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 19 — not the complete family. 15 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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