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בָּנִי

Bânîy · H1137 · Hebrew · proper noun · 15 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Bani

    A man of Gad, a warrior in the time of David

    Examples

    2 Samuel 23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

  2. Bani

    Man; son of Shemer; tribe of Levi

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 6:46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

  3. Bani

    A man of the tribe of Judah, a descendant of Perez and an ancestor of Uthai

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 9:4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah.

  4. Bani

    A man also known as Binnui, a family head after the exile

    Examples

    Ezra 2:10 the sons of Bani, 642;

    Ezra 10:29 and of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch and Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth;

    Ezra 10:34 of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,

  5. Bani

    A man who was a descendant of Bani and married a non-Israelite woman after the exile

    Examples

    Ezra 10:38 Bani, Binnui, Shimei,

  6. Bani

    Various men

    Examples

    Nehemiah 3:17 After him the Levites carried out repairs under Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, the official of half the district of Keilah, carried out repairs for his district.

    Nehemiah 8:7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites explained the Law to the people while the people remained in their place.

    Nehemiah 9:4 Now on the Levites’ platform stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and they cried out with a loud voice to the LORD their God.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
בָּנִי, "Bani," names several distinct individuals across the text, including one of David's mighty men, "Bani the Gadite" in 2 Samuel 23:36, and various Levites and returnees in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, functioning throughout as a personal name.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1137. Bani בָּנִי proper name, masculine 1. one of David's heroes 2Sa 23:36 הַגָּדִי…
H1137. Bani
בָּנִי proper name, masculine 1. one of David's heroes 2Sa 23:36 הַגָּדִי בָּנִי (|| 1Ch 11:38 has בֶּןהַֿגְרִי, but see DrSm).
2 Levites,
a. 1Ch 6:31;
b. Neh 3:17; compare Neh 8:7 (= בִּנּוּי Neh 10:10) Neh 9:4 (twice in verse) (repeated probably by error, compare BeRy) Neh 9:5; Neh 10:14; Neh 11:22. On Ezr 2:40 = Neh 7:43 compare GrGeschichte.ii.2, 389; he reads בני קדמיאל for לבני קדמיאל, taking בני as proper name, as 3 Ezra 5:26 Καδμιηλου καὶ Βαννου.
3 a man of Judah 1Ch 9:4 (מִן) בָּנִי Qr ( > Kt בנימן).
4 Ezr 2:10 read בִּנּוּי compare || Neh 7:15.
5 heads of families of Isr.
a. Ezr 10:29;
b. Neh 10:15;
c. Ezr 10:34 but perhaps read בִּנּוּי or בִּגְּוַי compare above
6 an Israelite Ezr 10:38. — (בני as proper name Palmyrene VogNo. 94.)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People15 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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