2 others in the registry answer to the name Bebai. Every Bebai in the Bible
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Ezra 2:11
- last named
- Nehemiah 7:16
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Bebai?
Bebai is mentioned in Ezr.2.11 and Neh.7.16 as the head of a family that returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile. The lists in these passages record the names of the families and their numbers who returned to Judah to resettle and rebuild the temple and the city. According to Ezr.2.11, 623 members of Bebai's family returned, while Neh.7.16 lists 628. This discrepancy may be due to differences in counting or additional family members joining the group. In Ezr.8.11, a descendant of Bebai named Zechariah is mentioned among those who returned with Ezra to Jerusalem, along with 28 men of his family. Later, in Ezr.10.28, another member of Bebai's family is listed among those who had married foreign women and pledged to put them away in response to Ezra's call for repentance. These references indicate that Bebai's family played a significant role in the resettlement of Jerusalem and the restoration of the Jewish community after the exile.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Bebai is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
4 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (3) and Nehemiah (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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