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# בַּוַּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H942

**Bavai** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bavai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/942/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּוַּי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/942/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Jew of Nehem.’s time Ne 3:18 = בִּנּוּי v 24 which prob. read also v 18 (𝔊 Βεδει, Βενει, Βεζερ); cf. further SmListen 12.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.18/#tree)

אַחֲרָיו֙ הֶחֱזִ֣יקוּ אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם בַּוַּ֖י בֶּן־חֵנָדָ֑ד שַׂ֕ר חֲצִ֖י פֶּ֥לֶךְ קְעִילָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* after him they.repaired brothers their Bavvai the.son of.Henadad the.official of.(the).half of.the.district of.Keilah

*JPS 1917:* After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/942.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/942/): 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).