Midvash

בִּגְוַיBigvay

proper name, masculine: bhagavân, happy?)

Pronunciation: big-vah'ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H902

Meanings

1. a companion of Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7; Ezra 2:14)

2. a chief of the people in Nehemiah's time (Nehemiah 10:17)

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 2:2 Their leaders were Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the number of the men of Israel who returned from exile:
  • Ezra 2:14 The family of Bigvai 2,056
  • Ezra 8:14 From the family of Bigvai: Uthai, Zaccur, and 70 other men.
  • Nehemiah 7:7 Their leaders were Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the number of the men of Israel who returned from exile:
  • Nehemiah 7:19 The family of Bigvai 2,067
  • Nehemiah 10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).