Lexical Definition

‎בִּגְוַי‎ Bigvay (big-vah'ee) Bigvai ^N:N-M-P
probably of foreign origin

Bigvai.

• § Bigvai = "in my bodies"
• Bigvai, an Israelite

1) an exile who returned under Zerubbabel, perhaps the head of a family

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎בִּגְוַי‎ proper name, masculine (compare Sanskrit bhagavân, happy) ?)

1. a companion of Zerubbabel Ezra 2:2 = Neh 7:7 perhaps = head of a family of returning exiles Ezra 2:14 (‎בִּגְוָ֑י‎) = Neh 7:19, compare Ezra 8:14.

2. a chief of the people in Nehemiah's time Neh 10:17* compare Sm^{Listen 13}.

‎בִּגְלַל‎ see ‎גלל‎. p. 164 ff

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