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(Hebrews Baanak', áִּòֲðָä , another form of the name Baani [q.v.]; Sept. ÂááíÜ .), the name of four men.
1. One of the two sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, captains of bands in Saul's army, who assassinated Ishbosheth (2Sa_4:2); for which murder they were slain by David, and their mutilated bodies hung up over the pool at Hebron (2Sa_4:5-6). B.C. 1046. Josephus represents him ( Âáíáüèá , Ant. 7, 2, 1) as a person of noble family, and instigated by personal ambition. SEE DAVID.
2. A Netophathite, father of Heleb or Heled, which latter was one of David's thirty heroes (2Sa_23:29; 1Ch_11:30). B.C. ante 1061. The Sept. utterly confounds the list of names at this part, but some copies retain the ÂááíÜ .
3. (1Ki_4:16.) SEE BAANA, 2.
4. One of the chief Jews who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, B.C. 536 (Ezr_2:2; Neh_7:7); possibly the same with one of those who long afterward (B.C. 410) united in the sacred covenant with Nehemiah (Neh_10:27).