ב־נب ن و

b-n “son”

Proto-Semitic *bin- 'son' is Hebrew bēn (Binyāmīn, Benjamin, 'son of the right hand') and Aramaic bar, whose r is a regular Aramaic change from n. Bar is the 'son of' in Bartholomew, Barnabas, Barabbas and bar mitzvah, and the plural bənē is read in Boanerges, 'sons of thunder', though the Greek spelling of that one is odd.

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Words from this root 6

BenjaminBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Old English → Middle English → English
bar mitzvahBiblical Hebrew → Jewish Babylonian Aramaic → English
BartholomewAramaic → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle English → English
BarnabasAramaic → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle English → English
BarabbasAramaic → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle English → English
BoanergesAramaic → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle English → English

Relatives outside the atlas

Biblical Hebrew	בֵּן	bēn	“son”
Biblical Hebrew	בַּת	baṯ	“daughter (from *bint-)”
Aramaic	בַּר	bar	“son”
Arabic	اِبْن	ibn	“son”
Arabic	بِنْت	bint	“daughter, girl”
Akkadian	bīnum	bīnum	“son”
Phoenician	𐤁𐤍	bn	“son”