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Baanah
Meaning: son of affliction.
This was the name of two biblical men:
One of the two sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, a captain in Saul's army. He and his brother Rechab assassinated Ishbosheth (2 Sam. 4:2), and were on this account slain by David, and their mutilated bodies suspended over the
pool at Hebron (5,6,12).
The father of Heled, who was one of David's thirty heroes
(2 Sam. 23:29; 1 Chr. 11:30).
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