- Bani used 15 times.
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: No
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
- H1137 Used 15 times
2. One of David's thirty-seven warriors, a Gadite (2 Samuel 23:36).
1. A Gadite
2 Samuel 23:36
2. A Levite
1 Chronicles 6:46
3. A descendant of Pharez
1 Chronicles 9:4
4. Father of returned exiles
- A Gadite, one of David's mighty men. (2 Samuel 23:36) (B.C. 1046.)
- A Levite of the line of Merari, and forefather to Ethan. (1 Chronicles 6:46)
- A man of Judah of the line of Pharez. (1 Chronicles 9:4)
- "Children of Bani" returned from captivity with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:10; 10:29,34; Nehemiah 10:14) 1 Esd. 5.12. [BINNUI; MANI]
- An Isr'lite "of the sons of Bani." (Ezra 10:38)
- A Levite. (Nehemiah 3:17)
- A Levite. (Nehemiah 8:7; 9:4,5; 10:13)
- Another Levite, of the sons of Asaph. (Nehemiah 11:22)
BAN'IAN, noun A man's undress or morning gown, as worn by the Banians in the E. Indies.
2. A Gentoo servant, employed as an agent in commerce.
3. A tree in India.
Banian days, in seamen's language, are three days in a week, in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use of the term seems to be borrowed from the Banians in Asia, who, believing in a metempsychosis, will eat no flesh, nor even kill noxious animals.
BAN'ISH, verb transitive
1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the prince or government, either for life or for a limited time. It is common for Russians to be banished to Siberia.
2. To drive away; to compel to depart; as, to banish sorrow.
3. To quit one's country voluntarily, and with a view to reside abroad; as, he banished himself.
BAN'ISHED, participle passive Compelled to leave one's country; driven away.
BAN'ISHER, noun One who compels another to quit his country.
BAN'ISHING, participle present tense Compelling to quit one's country; driving away.
Of Adam and Eve, from Eden
Of Cain, to be a fugitive and vagabond
Of Jews, from Rome
BAN'ISHMENT, noun The act of a prince or government, compelling a citizen to leave his country, either for a limited time or forever, as for some crime.
2. A voluntary forsaking of one's country upon oath, called abjuration. [This practice has now ceased in G.Britain.]
3. The state of being banished; exile.
4. The act of driving away or dispelling; as the banishment of care from the mind.