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(Heb. Bani', áָּðִé , built; Sept. usually Âáíß , sometimes Âïõíß or Âáíïõú v, etc.), the name of at least five men.
1. A Levite, son of Shamer, and father of Amzi, of the family of Merari
(1Ch_6:46). B.C. long ante 1043.
2. A Gadite, one of David's thirty-seven warriors (2Sa_23:36). B.C. 1046.
3. A descendant of Pharez, and father of Imri, one of whose descendants returned from Babylon (1Ch_9:4). B.C. long ante 536.
4. One of the heads of families whose retainers to the number of 642 returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:10; Ezr_10:29; Ezr_10:34; Neh_10:14; 1Es_5:12). He is elsewhere (Neh_7:15) called BINNUI SEE BINNUI (q.v). SEE BANID. He was himself one of those who divorced their heathen wives (Ezr_10:38). Others consider this last a different person, and identify him with some of those referred to below. B.C. 536-410.
5. A Levite, whose son Rehum repaired a portion of the (branch) wall of Jerusalem skirting the brow of Mount Zion on the east (Neh_3:17). Apparently the same Bani was among those who were conspicuous in all the reforms on the return from Babylon (Neh_8:7; Neh_9:4 twice, 5; 10:13). He had another son named Uzzi, who was appointed overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem; his own father's name was Hashabiah (Neh_11:22). B.C. 446-410. SEE CHENANI.