Unni
- A Levite doorkeeper; played the psaltery on (See ALAMOTH in the Zion tabernacle erected by David (1Ch 15:18; 1Ch 15:20).
- A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh 12:9).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Unni
Unni un'-i (`unni, meaning unknown): (1) One of "the twelve brethren" (so Curtis for the Revised Version (British and American) "brethren of the second degree") appointed as singers (1Ch 15:18,20). ⇒See a list of verses on UNNI in the Bible. (2) In Ne 12:9 (Kethibh `unno) = the Revised Version (British and American) UNNO (which see). ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Unni
1. The name of a Levitioal family of musicians, 1 Cli IS'" (H 'EXtunjX, K 'MX, A 'Ayl, Luc. "Ai-ai-faj) *> (BS 'fii-ei, A 'Avayl, Luc. 'Ayaylas). 2. See Unno. UNNO {Sis KHhibh, followed by RV; but ^frt 'i;; Unni (so AV, cf. 1 Ch IS"-*)).— The name of a family of Levites that returned with Zerubbalicl, Neh 12'« (U.\ om., {{"••"J '\aui, Luc. 'la^of). Guthe would read D'jv', which he finds repre8ente<l by the aKKpovorro of Lucian, taking the 'lavai of the latter to be a doublet of this word, and dropping Bakbukiau as an explanatory gloss derived from II". UNRIGHT WU 12" 'To whom thou might««t shew that thy judgment is not unright' (Sri oi5« doUus (Kpivas, liV ' that thou didst not judge un- righteously'). We find 'unright' ioi unrigfUeous also in Tindale, as Pent. (Mombert's ed.), p. cxxviii, ' A m»is, a kynde of Giauntes, and the worde signilieth crooked, unright, or weaked.' More common, however, is the subst. ' unright ' for unrighteousness, wrong; thus Tindale's Peni. Gn le'' (ed. 1530), ' Thou dost me unrighte ' (changed in 1535 ed. into, 'The wrong I sull're be on thy head'); Dt 2…
Smith's Bible Dictionary on Unni
(depressed). One of the Levite doorkeepers in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 15:18,20) (B.C. 1043.) A second Levite (unless the family of the foregoing be intended) concerned in the sacred office after the return from Babylon. (Nehemiah 12:9) (B.C. 535.)
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