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the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31

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Bible Lexicons

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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"
1. 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
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

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