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# בֻּנִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1138

**Bunni** — used 3 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

Bunni [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1138/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֻּנִּי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1138/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Levites, Ne 9:4, but read perhaps בִּנּוּי cf. BeRy & vid. 10:10; 12:8 Ezr 8:33; בּוּנִּי (בֶּן) Ne 11:15, but read perhaps מִן בְּנֵי etc. cf. BeRy a chief of people Ne 10:16, perhaps repetit. of בָּנִי v 15 cf. BeRy.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: Bunni (2); of Bunni (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.16/#tree)

בֻּנִּ֥י עַזְגָּ֖ד בֵּבָֽי׃

*Word for word:* Bunni Azgad Bebai

*JPS 1917:* Bunni, Azgad, Bebai;

[Nehemiah 11:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.15/#tree)

וּמִֽן־הַלְוִיִּ֑ם שְׁמַעְיָ֧ה בֶן־חַשּׁ֛וּב בֶּן־עַזְרִיקָ֥ם בֶּן־חֲשַׁבְיָ֖ה בֶּן־בּוּנִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and of the Levites Shemaiah the.son of.Hasshub the.son of.Azrikam the.son of.Hashabiah the.son of.Bunni

*JPS 1917:* And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1138.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1138/): 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).