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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BUNNI, Neh_9:4; Neh_10:15; Neh_11:15, but in each case perhaps the text is corrupt.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Neh_9:4; Neh_10:15.
2. Neh_11:15.
3. The alleged Jewish name of Nicodemus (Joh_3:1).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Bun'ni. (my understanding).
1. One of the Levites, in the time of Nehemiah. Neh_9:4.
2. Another Levite, but of an earlier date than Bunni, 1. Neh_11:15.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bun?ı̄ (בּנּי, bunnı̄, בּוּני, būnı̄, בּוּנּי, būnnı̄; compare BANI):
(1) A Levite (Neh_9:4). The repetition of Bani's name in this passage is probably a scribal error. The Syriac version for the second ?Bani? reads ?Binnui?; but as, in Neh_10:9 and Neh_12:8, Binnui's name comes, as here, between those of Jeshua and Kadmiel, we should substitute Binnui here for the first Bani. The Septuagint renders all three names as if the Hebrew in each case had been בּני, benē, ?sons of,? reducing the proper names in the verse to five. The names probably stand for chief Levitical houses rather than individuals.
(2) Another Levite, one of the overseers of the temple, father of Hashabiah, according to Neh_11:15; but, according to 1Ch_9:14, Hashabiah is ?of the sons of Merari? The reading in Nehemiah is a corruption of the one in Ch.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bunni
the name of two Levites.
1. (Heb. בּוּנַּי, Bunni', either considerate, or the same name as BINNUI; Sept. Βοννά.) The great-great-grandfather of one Shemaiah, which latter was appointed an overseer of the Temple after the captivity (Neh_11:15). B.C. long ante 536.
2. (Heb. בֻּנּי, Bunni', built, Sept. translates υἱός, υἱοί.) One of those who pronounced the public prayer and thanksgiving, and sealed the covenant on the return from Babylon (Neh_9:4; Neh_10:15). B.C. 410.
3. Bunni is said to have been the Jewish name of Nicodemus (Lightfoot on Joh_3:1; Ewald, Isr. Gesch. v. 233). SEE NICODEMUS.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.