Ezra 10:28
in Ezra 10From the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
KJV
Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
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This verse in Ezra 10
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
among the other Israelites
on Ezra 10:25-43
The heading "among the other Israelites" opens the longest stretch of the chapter, nineteen verses of names. Ten or more houses of ordinary Israelites are named, which shows how far the failure had spread. By verse 17 the cases were already dealt with, so the list records finished discipline.
This site's exposition
From the descendants of Bebai
Bebai had sent 623 men in the first return, by Ezra 2:11, and 28 more with Ezra at 8:11. Its four names are the fewest of any lay house here.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra's humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced, was himself in grief, and to so great a degree, for them and their sin, than presently there assembled to him a very great congregation, to see what the matter was and to mingle their tears with his,
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמִבְּנֵ֖י | umibenei | and of [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| בֵּבָ֑י | bevai | Bebai | H893 → | 6 times |
| יְהוֹחָנָ֥ן | yehochanan | Jehohanan | H3076 → | |
| חֲנַנְיָ֖ה | chananyah | Hananiah | H2608 → | |
| זַבַּ֥י | zabai | Zabbai | H2079 → | |
| עַתְלָֽי׃ ס | ʾatlai | Athlai | H6270 → |
וּמִבְּנֵ֖יand of [the] sons of
umibeneiH1121 →4930 times
בֵּבָ֑יBebai
bevaiH893 →6 times
יְהוֹחָנָ֥ןJehohanan
yehochananH3076 →
חֲנַנְיָ֖הHananiah
chananyahH2608 →
זַבַּ֥יZabbai
zabaiH2079 →
עַתְלָֽי׃ סAthlai
ʾatlaiH6270 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezra 2:11the descendants of Bebai, 623;
it leads to
- Nehemiah 7:16
the descendants of Bebai, 628;
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezra 8:11
from the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him 28 men;
- Nehemiah 7:16
Through
Ezra 8:11from the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him 28 men;
it leads to
- Ezra 2:11
the descendants of Bebai, 623;
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezra 2:11
Where this verse is studied
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Studies1
About Ezra

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 2:11, the first register; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 8; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 10; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
