Bible Person
Meaning: in my body · Male · 3 cross references
Bigvai is the ancestral or house-name behind a returnee family present in both Ezra and Nehemiah. The name represents one of the identifiable groups participating in the return from Babylon and later resettlement. First appears in Ezra 2:14.1
AI summary: Bigvai matters because the cross references place the house across more than one restoration list, giving it continuity in the memory of return and rebuilding. Such entries help show that the restored community is made up of real, persistent households rather than abstract numbers alone. Taken together, the material presents Bigvai as a returnee house with a continuing role in post-exilic restoration.1
Central Figure
Bigvai
Meaning: in my body
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.