Baanah

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The origin of the name Baanah is Hebrew

 

This is how Baanah is written in Hebrew

 

בַּעֲנָה = Ba`anah

 

The meaning of the name Baanah is: in affliction

 

Baanah was a Benjamite, son Rimmon, who murdered Ish-bosheth. Also a Netophathite, one of David’s mighty warriors

 

The name Baanah appears in the bible in the following verses:

 

2 Samuel 4:2 KJV
And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

2 Samuel 4:5 KJV
And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.

2 Samuel 4:6 KJV
And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

2 Samuel 4:9 KJV
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

2 Samuel 23:29 KJV
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

1 Chronicles 11:30 KJV
Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

Ezra 2:2 KJV
Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

Nehemiah 7:7 KJV
Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;

Nehemiah 10:27 KJV
Malluch, Harim, Baanah.