Baanah

Bay´uh-nuh

1 A Benjaminite commander of a group of soldiers under Ishbosheth, Saul’s son. He and his brother Rechab killed Ishbosheth and took his head to David, thinking David would be pleased at the removal of this threat to his newly established rule. Instead, David was angry at their treachery and ordered them both killed, mutilated, and publicly displayed (2Sam 4). 2 The father of Heleb (Heled), one of David’s fighting men (2Sam 23:29). 3 One who returned with Zerubbabel from the Babylonian captivity (Neh 7:7), probably the same one who signed the covenant to keep the law (Neh 10:27); he is possibly the same person elsewhere called Baana, whose son helped rebuild the Fish Gate in Jerusalem (Neh 3:4).