King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H902
Transliteration: Bigvay
Phonetic Spelling: (big-vah'ee)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps "happy", an Israelite name
Meaning: Bigvai -- perhaps "happy", an Israelite name
Word Summary
Bigvay: perhaps "happy", an Israelite name
Original Word: בִּגְוַיTransliteration: Bigvay
Phonetic Spelling: (big-vah'ee)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps "happy", an Israelite name
Meaning: Bigvai -- perhaps "happy", an Israelite name
Strong's Concordance
Bigvai Probably of foreign origin; Bigvai, an Israelite -- Bigvai.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H902. Bigvay
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