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).