Benaiah (Hebrew: בניהו, "Yahweh delivers", or possibly, "the son of Yahweh builds up" is a common name in the Hebrew Bible. In the etymology of the name, the first part of Benaiah comes from the root-verb בנה (bana), which is a common and ubiquitous Hebrew verb meaning "to build". The second part of Benaiah is יה (Yah) = יהו (Yahu) = יו (Yu), a derivative of the Tetragrammaton. The Hebrew word בן (ben), meaning son, is also thought by some to come from the verb בנה (bana).
In the Hebrew Bible, Benaiah, son of Jehoiada the priest, came from the southern Judean town of Kabzeel.
Other Benaiahs of the Hebrew Bible are: