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HebrewH1137Proper Noun (Masculine)

בָּנִי

ba.ni

12Occurrences
H1137Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Bani, the name of five Israelites

from H1129 (בָּנָה); built;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at § Bani = "built" 1) a Gadite, one of David's mighty warriors 2) a Levite of the line of Merari, and forefather to ) a man of Judah of the line of Pharez 4) "children of Bani" returned from captivity with Zerubbabel 5) one or up to three Levites in Nehemiah's time

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

בָּנִי appears 12 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
5
Nehemiah
5
1 Chronicles
1
2 Samuel
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 9:4BSB

Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, a descendant of Perez son of Judah.

Ezra 10:29BSB

From the descendants of Bani:Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

Ezra 10:38BSB

From the descendants of Binnui:Shimei,

Ezra 8:10BSB

from the descendants of Bani, Shelomith son of Josiphiah, and with him 160 men;

Nehemiah 3:17BSB

Next to him, the Levites made repairs under Rehum son of Bani, and next to him, Hashabiah, ruler of a half-district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.