Ibnijah
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IBNIJAH (PERSON) [Heb yibnı̂yâ (יִבְנִיָּה)]. A Benjaminite who returned to Jerusalem from exile in Babylon (1 Chr 9:8). The consonants in the name Ibnijah are identical to the consonants in the name Ibneiah (ybnyh), which occurs earlier in 1 Chr 9:8. Dahlberg (IDB 2: 671) suggested that the two names referred to the same person but the text presents them as separate individuals from separate generations. Ibnijah does not appear in the parallel passage in Nehemiah (Neh 11:7–9) but 1 Chr 9:7–9 and Neh 11:7–9 vary at several points, which seems to indicate that the authors had different traditions from which to work.
Robert C. Dunston
Freedman, D. N. (1996, c1992). The Anchor Bible Dictionary (3:353). New York: Doubleday.
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IBNIJAH Forefather of Meshullam from Benjamin’s tribe (1 Chr 9:8).
Elwell, W. A., & Comfort, P. W. (2001). Tyndale Bible dictionary. Tyndale reference library (623). Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers.
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IBNI´JAH (ib-nīʹja; “building of Jah”). The ancestor of Meshullam, a Benjamite, who settled in Jerusalem after the return from Babylon (1 Chron. 9:8), after 536 b.c.
Unger, M. F., Harrison, R. K., Vos, H. F., Barber, C. J., & Unger, M. F. (1988). The new Unger's Bible dictionary. Revision of: Unger's Bible dictionary. 3rd ed. c1966. (Rev. and updated ed.). Chicago: Moody Press.
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Ibnijah (Heb. yiḇnɩ̂yâ)
A Benjaminite, ancestor of Reuel who dwelled in postexilic Jerusalem (1 Chr. 9:8).
Freedman, D. N., Myers, A. C., & Beck, A. B. (2000). Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible (624). Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans.
