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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Bebai

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: No
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Bebai

void, empty


Naves Topical Index
Bebai

The name of three Jews whose descendants came from exile.
Ezra 2:11; Ezra 8:11; Ezra 10:28; Nehemiah 7:16; Nehemiah 10:15


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Bebai

(fatherly).

  1. "Sons of Bebai," 623 (Nehemiah 6:28) in number, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, (2:11; Nehemiah 7:16) (B.C. 536), and at a later period twenty-eight more under Zechariah, son of Bebai, returned with Ezra. (Ezra 8:11) Four of this family had taken foreign wives. (Ezra 10:28) The name occurs also among those who sealed the covenant. (Nehemiah 10:15)
  2. Father of Zechariah, who was the leader of the twenty-eight men of his tribe mentioned above.