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BIGVAI
(Bigʹvai).
1. Forefather of some 2,000 “sons of Bigvai” who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in 537 B.C.E. (Ezr 2:1, 2, 14; Ne 7:19) Later, in 468 B.C.E., more of his descendants made the trip with Ezra.—Ezr 8:1, 14.
2. One listed prominently among those returning to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel.—Ezr 2:1, 2; Ne 7:7.
3. One by this name, or a representative of the family group mentioned in No. 1, who attested to Nehemiah’s “trustworthy arrangement.”—Ne 9:38; 10:1, 16.
