What Does Nehemiah 10:15 Mean?
Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
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
Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,THE KEY
The list makes belonging personal, and Bunni’s name turns the roll into an image of people being built together.
THE MEANING
You meet shared commitment here as particular people: Bunni, Azgad, and Bebai are named rather than counted anonymously. Bunni’s name echoes “built,” so the list carries an image of distinct lives held within something being built together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that belonging to a community makes a person anonymous: here the shared bond is carried by named people.
THE ROOT
בֻּנִּי
Bunni
GROWS FROM
בנה
בָּנָה (bānâ): to build, build up
Bunni’s name is commonly connected with בנה, the root for building. The name lets the list carry more than individual labels: its people are heard within the language of building a shared structure.
ALSO GROWS
boneh: Builder; one who builds
בּוֹנֶה
This branch makes the name’s building image personal: a person can be named through the work of building.
binyan: Building; structure
בִּנְיָן
This branch gives the name a communal dimension: distinct people can belong within a structure being built.
THE PATTERN
Belonging becomes personal when a community is held in view by name.
But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and who shaped you, O Israel. Do not fear, for I have bought you back; I have called you by your name; you are mine.Yet do not rejoice in this, that the breaths submit to you, but rejoice instead that your names have been written in the heavens.THE THREAD
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders toil in emptiness. Unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman stays awake in emptiness.Bunni’s name carries the language of building, and the psalm repeats that same root in “build.” Its image opens the list further: a community’s structure depends on the LORD who builds and keeps it.
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