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title: בִּגְוַי — Bigvai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּגְוַי (902), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Bigvai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּגְוַי

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«בִּגְוַי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bigvai** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 902 · **BDB:** בִּגְוַי

### Glosses

Bigvai (3); of.Bigvai (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Bigvai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/902/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/902/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. Skr. bhagavân, happy?) a companion of Zerubbabel Ezr 2:2 = Ne 7:7; perhaps = head of a family of returning exiles Ezr 2:14 (בִּגְוָ֑י) = Ne 7:19, cf. Ezr 8:14. a chief of the people in Nehemiah’s time Ne 10:17; cf. SmListen 13.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּגְוַי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/902/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 10:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.17/)

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אֲדֹנִיָּ֥ה בִגְוַ֖י עָדִֽין׃

*Word for word:* Adonijah Bigvai Adin

*JPS 1917:* Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin;

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[Ezra 2:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.14/)

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בְּנֵ֣י בִגְוָ֔י אַלְפַּ֖יִם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Bigvai two.thousand fifty and six

*JPS 1917:* The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.

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