Son

Son, properly בֵּ, ben (often rendered in the plural "children"), υἱός. From the root בָּנָה, to build, are derived both בּ; son, as in Ben-hanan, etc., and בִּת, daughter, as in Bath-sheba. The Chald. also בִּר, son, occurs in the Old Test., and appears in the New Test. in such words as Barnabas, but which in the plural בּנֵין (Ezr 6:16) resembles more the Hebrew. Cognate words are the Arabic Beni, sons, in the sense of descendants, and Benat, daughters (Gesenius, Thes. Hebr. p. 215, 236; Shaw, Travels, p. 8). See BAR; see BEN.

1. The word "son" is used with a great variety and latitude of significations both in the Old and the New Test., especially in the former, some of which often disappear in a translation. The following is a summary of these applications: It denotes

(1) the immediate offspring.