Bebai (Person)

An ancestor of a family that returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel after the exile in Babylon (Ezra 2:11; 8:11; Nehemiah 7:16). Some of the members of that family were guilty of marrying foreign women (Ezra 10:28).

A levitical leader of Israel who signed Ezra’s promise of faithfulness to God with Nehemiah and others after the exile in Babylon (Nehemiah 10:15). They may have been a member of the family of #1 above.