בנו
Hebrew
editEtymology 1
editPreposition
editבָּנוּ • (bánu)
- Form of ב־ (b'-) including first-person plural personal pronoun as object.
Etymology 2
editFrom the root ב־ו־ן in pa'al construction
Verb
editבָּנוּ • (bánu)
- Third-person plural past (suffix conjugation) of בָּן (bán).
Verb
editבַּנּוּ • (bánu)
- First-person plural past (suffix conjugation) of בָּן (bán).
Etymology 3
editFrom the root ב־נ־ה in pa'al construction
Verb
editבָּנוּ • (banú)
- Third-person plural past (suffix conjugation) of בָּנָה (baná).
Verb
editבְּנוּ • (b'nú)
- Masculine plural imperative of בָּנָה (baná).
Etymology 4
editבֵּן (ben, “son”) + ־וֹ (-o, “his, its”)
Noun
editבְּנוֹ • (b'no)
- singular form of בֵּן (bén) with third-person masculine singular personal pronoun as possessor: his/its son
- (biblical, poetic) singular construct state form of בֵּן (bén).
- Tanach, Numbers 23:18, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- קוּם בָּלָק וּשְׁמָע הַאֲזִינָה עָדַי בְּנוֹ צִפֹּר
- Arise, Balak, and hear; give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor
Usage notes
edit- Like other words that start with ב, ג, ד, כ, פ, or ת, this term's initial letter takes a dagesh lene. In older texts, that dagesh is usually dropped when the word is preceded, in the same phrase, by a word ending in a mater lectionis; in modern texts, the dagesh is usually preserved even in such a case. Likewise, in older texts, the dagesh is always dropped when the word is prefixed by an indefinite ב־, כ־, or ל־, or by ו־; in modern speech, the dagesh is often preserved in such a case. (After the definite ב־, כ־, and ל־, and after the prefixes ה־, מ־, and ש־, there is a dagesh forte, as described in the usage notes for those prefixes.)