Bebai

Smith’s Bible Dictionary · William Smith, F. N. Peloubet, M. A. Peloubet

(fatherly).

"Sons of Bebai," 623 (Nehe 6:28) in number, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, (2:11; Nehemiah 7:16) (B.C. 536), and at a later period twenty-eight more under Zechariah, son of Bebai, returned with Ezra. (Ezra 8:11) Four of this family had taken foreign wives. (Ezra 10:28) The name occurs also among those who sealed the covenant. (Nehemiah 10:15)
Father of Zechariah, who was the leader of the twenty-eight men of his tribe mentioned above.

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