What Does Nehemiah 10:13 Mean in the King James?

Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.

Nehemiah 10:13 · 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

The building-root inside Bani makes this roll call an image of how a people takes shape: through named lives.

THE MEANING

Hodijah carries the sense “majesty of Yah”; Bani belongs to the language of building; Beninu can be heard as “our sons.” Together, the names make shared commitment concrete: it takes form through particular people and continues through generations. The verse gives belonging the shape of a community whose members are known by name.

THE ROOT

בָּנִי

Bānî

GROWS FROM

בנה

To build or establish; the name is associated with “built.”

Bani belongs to the language of building, so the name carries an image as well as an identity. In this roll call, that image lets the community appear as something taking shape through named lives.

ALSO GROWS

banah: To build

בָּנָה

This verb carries the core action inside the name’s word-family.

mivneh: Structure, building

מִבְנֶה

The related noun makes the building image concrete: a shared life can take form as a structure.

binyan: Building, construction

בִּנְיָן

This branch keeps the focus on building as an ongoing process, fitting a list of people who give a community its form.

THE PATTERN

Shared life becomes visible through the named people who carry it together.

Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,

Nehemiah 10:1 · KJVThe commitment is attached to named people who stand within it.

Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Acts 13:1 · KJVA community’s shared work takes shape through people identified by name.

Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:

Romans 16:3 · KJVA shared life is made visible through named people and their relationship to one another.

THE THREAD

A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalm 127:1 · KJV

Bani belongs to the Hebrew root ⁨בנה⁩ (b-n-h; banah), meaning “to build,” the same root behind “build” in this verse. Nehemiah’s names show a community taking shape through its people; the psalm places that building under the LORD’s hand.

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