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# בִּנּוּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1131

**Binnui** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Binnui [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1131/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּנּוּי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1131/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. head of a family that returned with Zerubbabel Ne 7:15 (= בַּני ‖ Ezr 2:10 & perhaps Ezr 10:34 cf. SmListen 14; but BeRy proposes here בִּגְוַי). a Levite of Ezra’s time Ezr 8:33 Ne 10:10 (prob. = בָּנִי 8:7, בֻּנִּי 9:4) 12:8 cf. 3:24 (בַּוַי, textual error v 18) v. BeRy; also Ezr 2:40 = Ne 7:43 לִבְנֵי read perhaps לְבִנֻּי cf. SmListen 16 but BeRy otherwise; cf. further GrGesch. ii, 2, 389. Israelites of Ezra’s time, Ezr 10:30; Ezr 10:38.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Binnui (5); of Binnui (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 10:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.38/#tree)

וּבָנִ֥י וּבִנּ֖וּי שִׁמְעִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Bani and Binnui Shimei

*JPS 1917:* and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei;

[Nehemiah 7:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.15/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י בִנּ֔וּי שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Binnui six hundred(s) forty and eight

*JPS 1917:* The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1131/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).