What Does Ezra 10:38 Mean?
And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,THE KEY
A bare roster carries a quiet echo of building and hearing in the names Bani, Binnui, and Shimei.
THE MEANING
This verse reaches you as three distinct names without a stated action. Bani and Binnui carry the language of building, while Shimei carries the language of hearing; formation and perception sit together in this spare line.
THE ROOT
בָּנִי
Bānī
GROWS FROM
בנה
To build, establish, or build up.
“Bani and Binnui” in this verse is Bānī. Both names echo the root בנה, the language of building. English presents two names, while their shared seed lets building sound beneath the list without turning it into an explicit action.
ALSO GROWS
banah: To build.
בָּנָה
This is the verb whose root is carried in Bani and Binnui.
binyan: A building or structure.
בִּנְיָן
This branch makes the root’s result visible: what is built takes form.
שִׁמְעִי
Shimʿi
GROWS FROM
שמע
To hear or listen.
Shimei carries the sound of hearing in its name. Beside the building names, it places hearing within the same brief line, though the English spellings hide that echo.
ALSO GROWS
shamaʿ: To hear or listen.
שָׁמַע
The verb exposes the seed inside Shimei’s name.
shemuʿah: A report or something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
This branch carries hearing into what is received and passed along.
THE PATTERN
Scriptural names can disclose the nature or vocation carried within them, rather than serving as labels alone.
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.And he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, the one who struggles with God, for you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.THE THREAD
Those who come from you shall build the dry ruins of the ages. You shall raise up the foundations of generation to generation, and you shall be called the mender of the breach, the one who turns the paths back to dwell in.Bani and Binnui echo בנה (banah), “to build,” the same root heard openly in “build the old waste places.” Isaiah lets the names’ hidden seed appear as an action that raises what has been ruined.
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