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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #902 - בִּגְוַי
Transliteration
Bigvay
Phonetics
big-vah'ee
Origin
probably of foreign origin
Parts of Speech
proper masculine noun
TWOT
None
Definition
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition
- Bigvai = "in my bodies"
- an exile who returned under Zerubbabel, perhaps the head of a family
Frequency Lists
- Book
- Word
Verse Results
ASV (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
BSB (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
CSB (3)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
ESV (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
KJV (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
LEB (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
LSB (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
N95 (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
NAS (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
NLT (0)
The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
did not use
this Strong's Number
WEB (6)
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
בִּגְוַי proper name, masculine (compare Sanskrit bhagavân, happy) ?)
1 a companion of Zerubbabel Ezra 2:2 = Nehemiah 7:7; perhaps = head of a family of returning exiles Ezra 2:14 (בִּגְוָ֑י) = Nehemiah 7:19, compare Ezra 8:14.
2 a chief of the people in Nehemiah's time Nehemiah 10:17; compare Sm Listen 13.
בִּגְלַל see גלל. p. 164ff
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition
בִּגְוַי [Bigvai], pr.n. of a man, a leader who returned from the exile with Zerubbabel, Ezra 2:2, 14 Ezra 2:14, 8:14 Nehemiah 7:19, perhaps husbandman, gardener, Ch. בְּגָאִי husbandman, ܒܳܓܳܐ garden, which has also passed into the Persic, باغ bagh, a garden [“or i.q. Pers. Βαγαῖος, Herod. iii. 128; according to Bohlen, Sanscr. bagî, bagasan, happy.” Ges. add.]
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List of Word Forms
בִּגְוַ֖י בִגְוַ֖י בִגְוָ֔י בגוי biḡ·way ḇiḡ·way ḇiḡ·wāy bigVai biḡway ḇiḡway ḇiḡwāy vigVai
