בִּנּוּי
Binnui
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1131 appears in the Book of Ezra — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra
- Ezra 8:33 בִּנּ֖וּי n Proper On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;
- Ezra 10:30 וּ/בִנּ֖וּי conj + n Proper Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
- Ezra 10:38 וּ/בִנּ֖וּי conj + n Proper and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בנוי (Binnûwy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Binnui.” Nehemiah dominates its distribution — 4 of 7 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Ezra 8:33, it then recurs through the corpus. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1131 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Binnui 7×
- American Standard Version: Binnui 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Binnui 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Binnui 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1131 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1131 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1131 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1131 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. head of a family that returned with Zerubbabel Ne 7:15 (= בַּני ‖ Ezr 2:10 & perhaps Ezr 10:34 cf. SmListen 14; but BeRy proposes here בִּגְוַי). e.g. Nehemiah 7:15
- 2. a Levite of Ezra’s time Ezr 8:33 Ne 10:10 (prob. = בָּנִי 8:7, בֻּנִּי 9:4) 12:8 cf. 3:24 (בַּוַי, textual error v 18) v. BeRy; also Ezr 2:40 = Ne 7:43 לִבְנֵי read perhaps לְבִנֻּי cf. SmListen 16 but BeRy otherwise; cf. further GrGesch. ii, 2, 389. e.g. Ezra 8:33
- 3. Israelites of Ezra’s time,
- a. Ezr 10:30; e.g. Ezra 10:30
- b. Ezr 10:38. e.g. Ezra 10:38
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
Derived from בנה (bânâh) (H1129) — to build.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נוי
- (b. h.) to be becoming, pleasing. Sot. 47ᵇ, a. e. יִנְוֶה, v. נָוֶה II.
- 1. to beautify, adorn. Y. Peah I, 15ᵇ (ref. to Ex. XV, 2) וכי … לַנְווֹת את בוראו is it possible for man to beautify his Maker?; Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 3 להַנְווֹת קונו; (Yalk. Ex. 244 להשוות לקונו, v. infra).—2) to equal, adapt one’s self to. Sabb. 133ᵇ (expl. ואנוהו, Ex. l. c.) הוי דומה לו be like Him; Mekh. l. c. נדמה לו let us be like Him. Yalk. l. c. וכי … להשוות לקוני is it possible for man to equal his Creator? e.g. Exodus 15:2
- to adorn one’s self. Mekh. l. c. אֶנָּוֶוה לפניו, v. נָאָה.
- to make one’s self handsome, to be vain. Sot. I, 8 אבשלום נ׳ בשערו Y. ed. (Mish. a. Bab. ed. 9ᵇ נתגאה) Absalom was vain of his hair.
- to beautify. Mekh. l. c. (ref. to ואניהו, v. supra) נַיֶּינּוּ ושַׁבְּחוּ להב"ה וכ׳ beautify Him, and praise the Lord before all nations (Yalk. l. c. אגיד נאותיו ושְׁבָחוֹ וכ׳, v. נָאֶה).
נוי ²
- Hithpa. הִתְנַוֶּה to fall away, v. נִוְנֶה.
נוֹי
- (נָוָה, נָאָה)
- 1. beauty, ornament. Kel. XIV, 2 עשאן לנוי (ed. Dehr. לנוֹאי) he attached them for ornamentation. Yeb. 39ᵇ הכונס את יבמתו … לשם נ׳ he who married his deceased brother’s wife (v. יְבָמָה) for her beauty (not with the intention of perpetuating his brother’s name). Y. Maasr. III, end, 51ᵃ לנוֹיָיהּ של חצר to embellish the court. Zeb. 54ᵇ (play on בנוית, I Sam. XIX, 18) עוסקין בנוֹיוֹ של וכ׳ engaged in the embellishment of the world (consulting about building the Temple). Koh. R. to II, 12 והוא נוֹאוֹ and this (the nose) is man’s beauty; Gen. R. s. 12 נאה (corr. acc.). Pesik. R. s. 31 בעלת נ׳ a handsome woman; a. fr.—Pl. נוֹיוֹת. Yalk. Cant. 988 בנוֹיוֹתָיו (not בנויתיו), v. נָאֶה. e.g. 1 Samuel 19:18
- 2. נוֹי or נְוָיי (= נָוֶוה II) dwelling, climate. B. Bath. 24ᵇ משום נויי העיר because of the health of the town (which suffers from trees; Rashi: because of the beauty of the town which requires an open space all around); Y. ib. II, 13ᶜ top שניאו רע; Y. Shebi. VI, 36ᶜ bot. נִיוְיָהּ, v. נָוֶה II.
נְוַי
- , pr. n. pl., v. נְוַאי
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H1131 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּנּ֛וּי | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 3:24 | 2 |
| וּ/בִנּ֖וּי | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:30 | 2 |
| בִנּ֔וּי | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 7:15 | 1 |
| בִּנּ֕וּי | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:9 | 1 |
| בִּנּ֖וּי | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1131, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אבן ʼeben H68 stone
- בית bayith H1004 house
- בן bên H1121 son
- בנא bᵉnâʼ H1124 to build
- בניה binyâh H1140 building
- בנין binyân H1146 building
- בת bath H1323 daughter
- מבנה mibneh H4011 building
- תבן teben H8401 stubble
- תבנית tabnîyth H8403 pattern
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בני Bânîy H1137 Bani
- בני Bunnîy H1138 Bunni
- בניה Bᵉnâyâh H1141 Benaiah
- יבנאל Yabnᵉʼêl H2995 Jabneel
- יבנה Yabneh H2996 Jabneh
- יבניה Yibnᵉyâh H2997 Ibneiah
- יבניה Yibnîyâh H2998 Ibnijah
- מבני Mᵉbunnay H4012 Mebunnai
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 20 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Binnui). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(familyship).
+ A Levite, father of Noadiah. (Ezra 8:33) + One who had taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:30) + Another Israelite who had also taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:38) + Altered from Bani in the corresponding list in Ezra. (Nehemiah 7:15) + A Levite, son of Henadad, who assisted at the reparation of the wall of Jerusalem, under Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 3:24; 10:9)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
building
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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