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# בֵּצָי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1209

**Bezai** — used 3 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

Bezai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1209/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֵּצָ֑י: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1209/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Ne 10:19 one of the chiefs of the people; Ezr 2:17 Ne 7:23 בְּנֵי ב׳ i.e. a family.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Bezai (2); Bezai (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.19/#tree)

הוֹדִיָּ֥ה חָשֻׁ֖ם בֵּצָֽי׃

*Word for word:* Hodiah Hashum Bezai

*JPS 1917:* Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai;

[Ezra 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.17/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י בֵצָ֔י שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

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

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

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1209.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1209/): 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).