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A given name in Icelandic
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01 / Meaning & origin
Benóní is a masculine given name documented in Icelandic.
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Benoni— “son of sorrow”
…Naphtali commemorates Leah’s wrestling with her sister; Gad is one of the _troop_ round Leah, “and a _troop_ shall overcome him,” saith Jacob; Asher, is _blessed_, and Moses cries, “let Asher be blessed;” Issachar, is _hire_; and Zebulon, a _dwelling_, because Leah hoped her husband would dwell with her, and his promise from his father is that he shall _dwell_. Rachel cannot name her long-desired first-born without a craving that God would add to her another son, and thus…
…Naphtali commemorates Leah’s wrestling with her sister; Gad is one of the _troop_ round Leah, “and a _troop_ shall overcome him,” saith Jacob; Asher, is _blessed_, and Moses cries, “let Asher be blessed;” Issachar, is _hire_; and Zebulon, a _dwelling_, because Leah hoped her husband would dwell with her, and his promise from his father is that he shall _dwell_. Rachel cannot name her long-desired first-born without a craving that God would add to her another son, and thus Joseph means an _addition_, and when that second child was given, and she felt that it was at the cost of her own life, she mourned over him as Benoni, son of my sorrow; but his father with more hopeful augury called him (probably at his circumcision) Benjamin, son of my right hand.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter I (Hebrew Nomenclature) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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