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title: בֵּצָי — Bezai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֵּצָי (1209), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Bezai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֵּצָי

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«בֵּצָי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bezai** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1209 · **BDB:** בֵּצָ֑י

### Glosses

of.Bezai (2); Bezai (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בֵּצָי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1209/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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הוֹדִיָּ֥ה חָשֻׁ֖ם בֵּצָֽי׃

*Word for word:* Hodiah Hashum Bezai

*JPS 1917:* Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai;

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

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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.

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