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# בִּגְוַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H902

**Bigvai** — 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

Bigvai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/902/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּגְוַי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/902/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. Skr. bhagavân, happy?) a companion of Zerubbabel Ezr 2:2 = Ne 7:7; perhaps = head of a family of returning exiles Ezr 2:14 (בִּגְוָ֑י) = Ne 7:19, cf. Ezr 8:14. a chief of the people in Nehemiah’s time Ne 10:17; cf. SmListen 13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Bigvai (3); of Bigvai (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.17/#tree)

אֲדֹנִיָּ֥ה בִגְוַ֖י עָדִֽין׃

*Word for word:* Adonijah Bigvai Adin

*JPS 1917:* Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin;

[Ezra 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.14/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י בִגְוָ֔י אַלְפַּ֖יִם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Bigvai two.thousand fifty and six

*JPS 1917:* The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/902.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/902/): 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).