BEBAI

(Beʹbai) [fatherly].

1. A household head whose descendants, over six hundred, returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in 537 B.C.E. (Ezra 2:1, 2, 11; Neh. 7:16) Twenty-nine more came with Ezra in 468. (Ezra 8:11) Four of the first group had taken foreign wives, which they put away at the insistence of Ezra.—Ezra 10:28, 44.

2. A prominent man or a representative of the sons of Bebai (No. 1, above), who attested to Nehemiah’s agreement of faithfulness.—Neh. 9:38; 10:1, 15.