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# בָּנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1137

**Bani** — used 15 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

Bani [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1137/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּנִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1137/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. one of David’s heroes 2 S 23:36 בָּנִי הַגָּדִי (‖ 1 Ch 11:38 has בֶּן־הַגְרִי, but v. DrSm). Levites, 1 Ch 6:31; Ne 3:17 cf. 8:7 (= בִּנּוּי 10:10) 9:4(×2) (repeated prob. by error, cf. BeRy) v 5 10:14; 11:22. On Ezr 2:40 = Ne 7:43 cf. GrGesch. ii. 2, 389; he reads קדמיאל בני for קדמיאל לבני, taking בני as n.pr., as 3 Ne 9:5 Καδμιηλου καὶ Βαννου. a man of Judah 1 Ch 9:4 (מִן) בָּנִי Qr (\> Kt בנימן). Ezr 2:10 read בִּנּוּי cf. ‖ Ne 7:15. heads of families of Isr. Ezr 10:29; Ne 10:15; Ezr 10:34 but perhaps read בִּנּוּי or בִּגְוַי cf. supr. an Israelite Ezr 10:38.—(בני as n.pr. Palm. VogNo. 34.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 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: Bani (8); of Bani (6); of (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.14/#tree)

הוֹדִיָּ֥ה בָנִ֖י בְּנִֽינוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* Hodiah Bani Beninu

*JPS 1917:* Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.

[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;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1137.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1137/): 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).