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# בֵּסַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1153

**Besai** — used 2 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

Besai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1153/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֵּסַי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1153/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. head of a family of Nethinim, בְּנֵי־בֵסַי Ne 7:52 = ב׳־בֵסָ֑י Ezr 2:49.

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Besai (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.49/#tree)

בְּנֵי־עֻזָּ֥א בְנֵי־פָסֵ֖חַ בְּנֵ֥י בֵסָֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Uzzah the.descendants of.Paseah the.descendants of.Besai

*JPS 1917:* the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai;

[Nehemiah 7:52](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.52/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.52/#tree)

בְּנֵי־בֵסַ֥י בְּנֵי־מְעוּנִ֖ים בְּנֵ֥י נְפִֽישְׁסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Besai the.descendants of.Meunim the.descendants of.Nephissim

*JPS 1917:* the children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1153.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1153/): 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).