poor; afflicted; that answers
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
UNNI.1. A Levitical family (1Ch_15:18). 2. See Unno.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. A Levite doorkeeper; played the psaltery on (See ALAMOTH in the Zion tabernacle erected by David (1Ch_15:18; 1Ch_15:20).
2. A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh_12:9).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Un'ni. (depressed).
1. One of the Levite doorkeepers, in the time of David. 1Ch_15:18; 1Ch_15:20. (B.C. 1043).
2. A second Levite, (unless the family of the foregoing be intended), concerned in the sacred office, after the return from Babylon. Neh_12:9. (B.C. 535).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
un?ı̄ (ענּי, ‛unnı̄, meaning unknown): (1) One of ?the twelve brethren? (so Curtis for the Revised Version (British and American) ?brethren of the second degree?) appointed as singers (1Ch_15:18, 1Ch_15:20).
(2) In Neh_12:9 (Kethı̄bh ענּו, ‛unnō) = the Revised Version (British and American) UNNO (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Unni'j עַנּי[but text in Nehemiah Unn, עֻנּוֹ], according to Gesen. for מְעֻנֶּה[depressed], but according to Fürst for עֻנַּיָּה[Unniash, heard of Jehovah]; Sept. variously, ᾿Ωνί v.r.'Α᾿νί, Ι᾿αννί, etc.; Vulg. Ani, Ianni), the name of two Levites.
1. One of the relatives of Heman who were appointed door-keepers anuld musicians to the tabernacle by David (1Ch_15:18; 1Ch_15:20). B.C. 1043.
2. One of those appointed to a similar service on the return from Babylon (Neh_12:9). B.C. 535.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.