The Hebrew word for son is
בֵּן
ben
Translations for son and their definitions
| בן | |
| 1. n. A son. | |
| 2. n. (chiefly in hbo) A direct male descendant. | |
| בן אדם (bén-adám) - a human literally a son of Adam | |
| 3. n. A guy, a boy. | |
| 4. n. (no longer productive, construct only) Someone who possesses (the specified object). | |
| בן דעת (bén dá'at) - someone legally competent literally a son of intelligence | |
| בן תורה (bén torá) - someone devoted to the Torah literally a son of Torah | |
| 5. n. (construct only) Used in expressing the age of a man, a boy(,) or the referent of a masculine noun: age, aged. | |
| הוא בן שש. (hú bén shésh.) - He is six years old. literally, a son of six | |
| 6. n. (בֶּן־, bén-) singular construct form of בן . | |
| 7. n. (בִּן־, bín-) singular construct form of בן ; found only in certain expressions. | |
| יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בִּן־נוּן (y'hoshúa bín-nún) - Joshua, son of Nun | |
| 8. v. (rare, archaic) to understand. | |
| 9. prep. (poetic or archaic) Form of or (b'-) including third-person feminine plural personal pronoun as object |
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