H0942 H0942
Bavvai (personal name, wall-builder in Nehemiah)
A personal name belonging to one of the builders who repaired Jerusalem's wall under Nehemiah's leadership. Bavvai worked on a section of the wall, participating in the communal reconstruction project. Textual variants and parallel passages suggest possible confusion with the name Binnui, a common name in post-exilic texts. The name is preserved in Nehemiah's detailed record of who repaired which wall section.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Identifies a wall-builder in Nehemiah 3:18 who repaired a section of Jerusalem's wall during the post-exilic restoration. The name appears in Nehemiah's careful accounting of the construction project, preserving the memory of those who contributed to the restoration. Textual evidence suggests possible identity with Binnui (verse 24), indicating either scribal variation or two different individuals with similar names. 1×
AR["بَاوَايُ"]·ben["বাব্বাই"]·DE["[בוי]"]·EN["Bavvai"]·FR["[בוי]"]·heb["בוי"]·ID["Bawai"]·IT["[בוי]"]·jav["Bawai"]·KO["바와이가"]·PT["Bavvai"]·RU["Баввай"]·ES["Bavai"]·SW["Bawai"]·TR["Bavvay"]·urd["باوی"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בַּוַּי n.pr.m. a Jew of Nehem.’s time Ne 3:18 = בִּנּוּי v 24 which prob. read also v 18 (𝔊 Βεδει, Βενει, Βεζερ); cf. further SmListen 12.