Bible Person
Meaning: in my body · Male · 2 cross references
Bigvai is one of the named returnee leaders associated with Zerubbabel in Ezra and Nehemiah. He belongs to the leadership circle through which the first post-exilic return is remembered. First appears in Ezra 2:2.1
AI summary: Bigvai matters because the cross references place him among the recognizable names attached to the return from Babylon, helping give that event a concrete human leadership structure. Even without an extended narrative, his inclusion marks participation in one of the defining renewal moments of Israel's later history. Taken together, the material presents Bigvai as a returnee leader contributing to the restored community's beginning.1
Central Figure
Bigvai
Meaning: in my body
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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.