BINNUI bĭn’ yoŏ ī (בִּנְעָ֑א, from בָּנָה, H1215, to build). 1. A Levite from postexilic times; father of Noadiah (Ezra 8:33; 1 Esd 8:63). He was appointed to the job of supervising the weighing of the gold and silver vessels that Ezra brought from Babylon.

2. The son of Henadad and a repairer of the wall (Neh 3:24) called Bavvai in Neh 3:18. He also is the one who sealed the covenant in Neh 10:9.

3. The ancestor of some who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh 7:15) and called Bani in Ezra 2:10; 1 Esdras 5:12.

4. The ancestor of some who married foreign wives (Ezra 10:38). He may be the same as the man called Bani (in Ezra 10:34; 1 Esd 9:34).

5. A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh 12:8).

6. One of the sons of Pahath-Moab who married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:30) called Belnuus in 1 Esdras 9:31. Some identify this man with # 4 above.

Bibliography M. Noth, Die israelitischen Personennamen (1928), 38, 172.