Lexicon Bigvay: perhaps "happy," an Israelite name Original Word: בִּגְוָיPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Bigvay Phonetic Spelling: (big-vah'ee) Short Definition: Bigvai NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of foreign origin Definitionperhaps "happy," an Isr. name NASB TranslationBigvai (6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs 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 SmListen 13. בִּגְלַל see גלל. p. 164 ff
Strong's Bigvai Probably of foreign origin; Bigvai, an Israelite -- Bigvai. |
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