Ben

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; - opposed to but, the outer apartment.

(2): (adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.

(3): Alt. of Ben nut

(4): An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

(5): (n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BEN (‘son’). A Levite,   1 Chronicles 15:18 , omitted in parallel list in   1 Chronicles 15:20 in both MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] and LXX [Note: Septuagint.] . The latter omits it also in the first-named passage.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

A word signifying 'son,' and often placed at the beginning of proper names to say whose son the person is: or followed by an appellative, as Ben-oni, 'son of my sorrow.' In the plural it is BENE, or BENI. See BAR.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Bel. (Son). A Levite, one of the porters appointed by David, for the ark.  1 Chronicles 15:18.

King James Dictionary

BEN or BEN'-NUT, n. A purgative fruit or nut, the largest of which resembles a filbert, yielding an oil used in pharmacy.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("son".)  1 Chronicles 15:18.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 15:18

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Ben (prefix) (singular בּן , ben , "son of"; plural בּני , benē , "sons of" = Aramaic בּר , bar ): This word is used in the singular or plural to express relationship of almost any kind: (1) to a person; as such it is found as part of many compound names like Benjamin, Benhur, etc. (compare Bar); (2) to a clan; in this connection it is found in the plural only: "children of Israel," "children of Ammon," etc.; (3) to a town; perhaps as place of birth ("son of Jabesh";  2 Kings 15:10 ); (4) to occupation, state of life, age, character, quality even of things; (5) peculiarly employed in the sense of "scholar disciple" ("son of prophet"), or in phrases like "son of death," etc.; (6) in poetry, "sons of flame" for "sparks" ( Job 5:7 margin), etc. The frequent metaphorical use of the word indicates that it was rarely used to express the relation of father to son like the Arabic Ibn . Compare HPN , 64ff.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. id. בֵּן , Son; Sept. omits; Vulg. Ben ) , a Levite "of the second degree," one of the porters appointed by David to the service of the ark, apparently as an assistant musician ( 1 Chronicles 15:18). B.C. 1043.

in Norse mythology, was the god of the sea among ancient Angles and Saxons.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ben (son), is often found as the first element of proper names; in which case the word which follows it is always to be considered dependent on it in the relation of our genitive. The word which follows Ben may either be of itself a proper name, or be an appellative or abstract, the principle of the connection being essentially the same in both cases. [BAR].