Bible Person
Meaning: a despising; dirty · Male · 2 cross references
Besai is a Nethinim family or servant-house name preserved in the returnee lists. It belongs to the service communities that help make post-exilic worship function on the ground. First appears in Ezra 2:49.1
AI summary: Besai matters because the cross references place the name among the Nethinim whose labor undergirds the restored temple system. These servant-house entries widen the picture of restoration beyond famous leaders to the many families who carried practical responsibilities. Taken together, the material presents Besai as a servant-house participating in the daily reality of restored worship.1
Central Figure
Besai
Meaning: a despising; dirty
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.