Baanah (ba'-a-na ba'anah) is the name of two men in the Bible. The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity (The Bible therefore actually refers to at least...

1. Baanah, son of Rimmon
2. Baanah the Netophathite

• Meaning: "son of affliction"

Baanah — son of Rimmon

Baanah, one of the two sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, was a captain in Saul's army. He, along with his brother Rechab, assassinated Saul's son Ishosheth, while he was asleep in bed. They beheaded him and brought his head to David. In punishment for this murder, David had Baanah and Rechab put to death and their bodies suspended over the pool at Hebron. Rimmon (Hebrew pomegranate) is the proper name for a number of people or objects in the Hebrew Bible: A man of Beeroth (2 Samuel 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. ... Saul (Hebrew Shaul meaning demanded) is: 1. ... Rechab is the name of three men in the Bible: One of the two captains of bands whom Sauls son Ish-bosheth took into his service, and who conspired to kill him. ... Michelangelos David. ... Michelangelos David. ... Hebron (Arabic ▶(?) al-Ḫalīl; Hebrew ▶(?), Standard Hebrew Ḥevron, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥeḇrôn: derived from the word friend) is a town in the southern West Bank of around 130,000 Palestinians and 500 Israeli settlers. ...

• References: 2 Samuel 4:2, 2 Samuel 4:5,6,12

Baanah the Netophathite

Baanah the Netophathite was the father of Heled (one of David's thirty heroes).

• References: 2 Samuel 23:29, 1 Chronicles 11:30

External links

• Baanah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Eastons Bible Dictionary generally refers to the Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, by Matthew George Easton M.A., D.D. (1823-1894), published three years after Eastons death in 1897 by Thomas Nelson. ...