Bible Names

Unni: meaning of the name

Unni means “poor; afflicted; that answers.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Unni in Hebrew and Greek

עֻנִּי H6042

ʻUnnîy (oon-nee') — Unni, the name of two Israelites

from H6031 (עָנָה); afflicted;

People named Unni in the Bible

Unni in Scripture

“Unni” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:18

    And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, the porters.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:20

    And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;

  • Nehemiah 12:9

    Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.