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בַּוַּי

Bavvay · H942 · Hebrew · proper noun · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Bawai, Binnui

    Bawai, possibly to be identified with Binnui, son of Henadad, who assisted Nehemiah in repairing the wall of Jerusalem

    Examples

    Nehemiah 3:18 After him their brothers carried out repairs under Bavvai the son of Henadad, official of the other half of the district of Keilah.

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1 occurrences in 2 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
This is the personal name of one who helped repair Jerusalem's wall under Nehemiah, identified as 'Bavvai the son of Henadad' in Nehemiah 3:18.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H942. Bavvai בַּוַּי proper name, masculine a Jew of Nehemiah's time Neh 3:18 = בִּנּוּי…
H942. Bavvai
בַּוַּי proper name, masculine a Jew of Nehemiah's time Neh 3:18 = בִּנּוּי Neh 3:24 which probably read also Neh 3:18 (ᵐ5 Βεδει, Βενει, Βεζερ); cf, further SmListen 12.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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