Bebai = "my cavities"

1. a leader of the returning exiles

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Zabbai = "pure"

1. a descendant of Bebai who took a foreign wife in the days of Ezra

2. father of Baruch, who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the city wall

Zaccai = "pure"

1. the head of a family of 760 exiles returning with Zerubbabel

Hananiah = "God has favoured"

1. the godly friend of Daniel whom Nebuchadnezzar renamed Shadrach; one of the three friends who with Daniel refused to make themselves unclean by eating food from the king's table which went against the dietary laws which God had given the Jews; also one of the three who were thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow down to a graven image of Nebuchadnezzar and who were saved by the angel of the Lord. See also, 'Shadrach' (H7714 or H7715)

2. one of the 14 sons of Heman and chief of the 16th course

3. a general in the army of King Uzziah

4. father of Zedekiah in the time of Jehoiakim

5. son of Azur, a Benjamite of Gibeon and a false prophet in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah

6. grandfather of Irijah, the captain of the ward at the gate of Benjamin who arrested Jeremiah on the charge of deserting to the Chaldeans

7. a head of a Benjamite house

8. son of Zerubbabel from whom Christ derived His descent also called 'Joanna' by Luke

9. one of the sons of Bebai who returned with Ezra from Babylon

10. a priest, one of the makers of the sacred ointments and incense, who built a portion of the wall of Jerusalem in the days of Nehemiah

11. head of the priestly course of Jeremiah in the days of Joiakim

12. ruler of the palace at Jerusalem under Nehemiah and also, along with Hanani, the Tirshatha's brother, entrusted with the arrangements of guarding the gates of Jerusalem

13. Two post exilic Israelites

Jehohanan = "Jehovah has graced"

1. a priest during the high priesthood of Joiakim who returned with Zerubbabel

2. a high priest in the time of Ezra

3. a Levite priest who took part in the dedication of the wall in the time of Nehemiah

4. son of Tobiah

5. a Korhite Levite and one of the doorkeepers to the tabernacle in the time of David

6. a captain of Judah under king Jehoshaphat

7. an Ephraimite

8. an Israelite with a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

9. a Jewish captain after the fall of Jerusalem

10. the eldest son of king Josiah

11. a post-exilic prince of the line of David

12. father of Azariah, priest in Solomon's time

13. a Benjamite, one of David's mighty warriors

14. a Gadite, one of David's mighty warriors

15. a returning exile

Athlai = "whom Jehovah afflicts"

1. one of the sons of Bebai and one who put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra