Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"
- one of David's mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army
- the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course
- a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon
- a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth
- a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark
- a Levite of the sons of Asaph
- a Levite in the time of Hezekiah
- Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives
- the father of Pelatiah