בֻּנִּיBunnîy
בּוּנִּי: proper name, masculine: see בנה
Pronunciation: boon-nee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1138
Meanings
בֻּנִּי: proper name, masculine: Levites
2. a chief of people (Nehemiah 10:16)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Nehemiah 9:4 The Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani—stood on the stairway of the Levites and cried out to the Lord their God with loud voices.
- Nehemiah 10:15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
- Nehemiah 11:15 From the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).