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# בֵּבַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H893

**Bebai** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bebai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/893/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֵּבַי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/893/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a chief of returning exiles בֵּבָ֑י Ne 10:16; בְּנֵי בֵבַי Ezr 8:11; בֶּן־בֵּבָ֑י Ezr 8:11; בְּנֵי בֵבָ֑י Ezr 2:11; 10:28; Ne 7:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Bebai (5); Bebai (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.16/#tree)

בֻּנִּ֥י עַזְגָּ֖ד בֵּבָֽי׃

*Word for word:* Bunni Azgad Bebai

*JPS 1917:* Bunni, Azgad, Bebai;

[Ezra 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.11/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י בֵבָ֔י שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Bebai six hundred(s) twenty and three

*JPS 1917:* The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/893.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/893/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).