son; building; understanding
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MEBUNNAI.The name in 2Sa_23:27 of one of Davids thirty heroes. It is a scribal error for Sibbecai, the form which has been preserved in the parallel lists, 1Ch_11:29; 1Ch_27:11, and also 2Sa_21:18 = 1Ch_20:4.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
2Sa_23:27. Elsewhere Sibbechai (2Sa_21:18), Sibbecai (1Ch_20:4; 1Ch_11:29; 1Ch_27:11). An error of transcribers.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mebun'na-i. (building of Jehovah). In this form appears, in one passage only ? 2Sa_23:27 ? the name of one of David's guard, who is elsewhere called Sibbechai, 2Sa_21:18; 1Ch_20:4, or Sibbecai, 1Ch_11:29; 1Ch_27:11, in the Authorized Version.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mḗ-bun?ı̄, mḗ-bun?ā́-ı̄ (מבנּי, mebhunnay, ?well-built?): One of David's ?braves? (2Sa_23:27). In 2Sa_21:18 he is named ?Sibbechai? (the Revised Version (British and American) ?Sibbecai?), and is there mentioned as the slayer of a Philistine giant. The Revised Version (British and American) spelling occurs in 1Ch_11:29, the King James Version ?Sibbechai? in 1Ch_20:4 (compare 2Sa_21:18); and in 1Ch_27:11 the Revised Version (British and American) spelling recurs, where this person is mentioned as captain of the 8th course of the 12 monthly courses that served the king in rota. Scribal error, and the similarity in Hebrew spelling of the two forms accounts for the difference in spelling. the Revised Version (British and American) consistently tries to keep this right.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Mebunnai
(Hebrews Mebunnay', מְבֻנִּי, constructive, if genuine; Sept. ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν [apparently pointing מַבְּנִי], but v. r; Σαβουχαϊv; Vulg. Mebounai), a person named as one of David's body-guard (2Sa_23:27), but elsewhere more correctly SIBBECHAI (2Sa_21:18; 1Ch_20:4) or SIBBECAI (1Ch_11:29; 1Ch_27:11). See DAVID.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.