Nehemiah 10:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

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בֻּנִּ֥י

Bunnîy

H1138

“Bunni”

Noun, Proper

Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Nehemiah 9:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1129

TWOT: None

Bunni = "built" - a Levite in the time of Nehemiah - another Levite of earlier date

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 בֻּנִּ֥י Bunni H1138 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בֻּנִּ֥י Bunni H1138 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 nouns

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Nehemiah 10:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezra 2:11–12 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
Ezra 8:11–12 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
Ezra 10:28 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
Nehemiah 7:16–17 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Nehemiah 10:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֻּנִּ֥י עַזְגָּ֖ד בֵּבָֽי

Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

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Greek LXX Structure differs

The Septuagint has no separate book of Nehemiah. Its Greek text is the second half of Esdras B (2 Esdras), chapters 11–23; Ezra is the first half (1–10).

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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Nehemiah 10:15 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

The heads of the people. Forty-four names, thirteen of which are found in the list (Ezra 2) of the kindreds who returned with Zerubbabel; see Ezra 2. The rest are names either of the heads of the different houses into which these kindreds were divided, or of the elders of the smaller towns of Benjamin and Judah. The fact that, while only thirty-three kindreds and placed are enumerated in Ezra 2, forty-four occur here, - although names of kindreds mentioned in Ezra 2, e.g., Shephatiah, Arah, Zaccai, etc., are wanting here, - is to be explained partly by the circumstance that these kindreds included several houses whose different heads all subscribed, and partly by fresh accessions during the course of years to the number of houses.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

unfoldingWord translationNotes

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General Information:

In these verses, Nehemiah continues to list the names of the people who signed the sealed document.

Bunni

This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 9:4. (See: How to Translate Names)

Azgad, Bebai

These are the names of men. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 7:16-17. (See: How to Translate Names)

Adonijah ... Azzur ... Nebai, Magpiash ... Hezir ... Jaddua

These are the names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)

Bigvai

This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 7:7. (See: How to Translate Names)

Adin, Ater, Hezekiah ... Hashum

These are the names of men. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 7:20. (See: How to Translate Names)

Hodiah

This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 8:7. (See: How to Translate Names)

Bezai, Hariph

These are the names of men. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 7:23. (See: How to Translate Names)

Anathoth

This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 7:27. (See: How to Translate Names)

Meshullam ... Meshezabel, Zadok

These are the names of men. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 3:4. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

Zadok

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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.

Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bunnîy (“Bunni”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Bunni” (Bunnîy) shape what this verse is saying?
Nehemiah 9:4 shares the word «Bunni» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
Reading how Keil & Delitzsch and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?