What Does Ezra 10:38 Mean in the King James?

And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,

Ezra 10:38 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVThe changed name Abraham is tied directly to the nature named in the verse: father of many nations.

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Genesis 32:28 · KJVIsrael names a changed identity that the verse connects to the one who prevails.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe verse connects the name Jesus with the work of deliverance.

THE THREAD

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Isaiah 58:12 · KJV

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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