Dictionaries :: Bebai

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Bebai:

void, empty

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Bebai:

be'-ba-i, beb'-a-i (bebhay; Septuagint Bebai, "fatherly"):

(1) Descendants of B: returned with Ezra to Jerusalem (Ezr 8:11 called Babi; 1 Esdras 8:37); one of these is Zechariah, the son of Bebai (Ezr 8:11, Zaeharias; 1 Esdras 8:37). 623 returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezr 2:11; 1 Esdras 5:13; Ne 7:16 gives the number 628); some of these had married "strange wives" (Ezr 10:28; 1 Esdras 9:29).

(2) A chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Ne 10:15).

(3) An unknown town (Judith 15:4). Omitted in Codex Vaticanus and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A. D.)

Nave's Topical Bible

Bebai: The Name of Three Jews

Whose descendants came from the exile,

Ezr 2:11; 8:11; 10:28; Neh 7:16; 10:15

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Bebai:

(fatherly).

(1.) "Sons of Bebai," 628 in number, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Deuteronomy 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.