(Bigʹvai).

1. Forefather of some 2,000 “sons of Bigvai” who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in 537 B.C.E. (Ezr 2:1, 2, 14; Ne 7:19) Later, in 468 B.C.E., more of his descendants made the trip with Ezra.​—Ezr 8:1, 14.

2. One listed prominently among those returning to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel.​—Ezr 2:1, 2; Ne 7:7.

3. One by this name, or a representative of the family group mentioned in No. 1, who attested to Nehemiah’s “trustworthy arrangement.”​—Ne 9:38; 10:1, 16.