וּבָנִ֥י וּבִנּ֖וּי שִׁמְעִֽי
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Ezra 10:38
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezra 10:38 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
From the descendants of Binnui: Shimei,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
From the descendants of Binnui: Shimei,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Banni, and Bennui, Shimei,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Bani, and Bennui, Semei,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Among the descendants of Binnui: Shimei,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Bani, Binnui, Shimei,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Binnui: Shimei,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Bani and Binnui, Shimei;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei;
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וּבִנּ֖וּי
Binnûwy
H1131
“and · Binnui”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Ezra 8:33
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Binnui = "built up"
- an exile returnee with Zerubbabel, son of Henadad, who assisted at the reparation of the wall of Jerusalem, under Nehemiah
- a Levite in time of Ezra, father of Noadiah
- another Levite in time of Ezra, who took a foreign wife
- still another Levite in time of Ezra, who took a foreign wife
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- words
- 3
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וּבִנּ֖וּי Binnui H1131 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּבִנּ֖וּי Binnui H1131 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 5 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 12 words vs World English Bible 5. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὁ υἱός βανουι καί ὁ υἱός σεμεϊ
and so did the children of Banui, and the children of Semei,
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
In the Septuagint this is one book — Esdras B (2 Esdras): Ezra is chapters 1–10, Nehemiah 11–23.
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Ezra, in the Historical, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Binnûwy (“Binnui”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Binnui” (Binnûwy) shape what this verse is saying?
- Ezra 8:33 shares the word «Binnui» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?