STRONGS NUMBER H902


Word Summary
Bigvay: perhaps "happy", an Israelite name
Original Word: בִּגְוַי
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
Strong's Concordance
Bigvai

Probably of foreign origin; Bigvai, an Israelite -- Bigvai.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H902. Bigvay

בִּגְוַיproper 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