Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"

1. one of David'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's attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army

2. the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course

3. a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon

4. a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth

5. a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark

6. a Levite of the sons of Asaph

7. a Levite in the time of Hezekiah

8. Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives

9. the father of Pelatiah

Gaash = "quaking"

1. a mountain of Ephraim where Joshua was buried

Hiddai = "for the rejoicing of Jehovah"

1. one of the 37 mighty warriors of David's guard

torrent, valley, wadi, torrent-valley

1. torrent

2. torrent-valley, wadi (as stream bed)

3. shaft (of mine)

palm-tree

1. meaning dubious

Pirathonite = see Pirathon "princely"

1. an inhabitant of Pirathon