Bible Person
Meaning: turning captivity · Male · 2 cross references
Shobai is a gatekeeper family or returnee group name preserved in Ezra and Nehemiah. It belongs to the households that help reestablish ordered worship and community life after exile. First appears in Ezra 2:42.1
AI summary: Shobai matters because the cross references place the name among the returnee gatekeepers, whose task is bound up with the guarded, ordered functioning of the restored temple community. Even list-based notices like this help show that restoration required dependable service in practical roles. Taken together, the material presents Shobai as a household within the operational life of post-exilic worship.1
Central Figure
Shobai
Meaning: turning captivity
Captors (Ezra 2:42).
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.