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Besay <a href="../hebrew/1154.htm" title="1154">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">Besay: Besai</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="hebrew">בְּסַר</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Proper Name Masculine<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>Bcay<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>beh-SAI<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(bes-ah'-ee)<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Besai<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>Besai<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>Likely of foreign origin, possibly of Babylonian or Persian derivation.<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span>There are no direct Greek equivalents for the name "Besai" in the Strong's Greek Dictionary, as it is a specific Hebrew proper noun related to the post-exilic period.<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>The name "Besai" is used in the Bible to refer to a family or group of temple servants who returned from the Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel. The name itself does not have a clear meaning in Hebrew, suggesting it may have been adopted from another culture or language.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>The temple servants, or Nethinim, were a group of individuals assigned to assist the Levites in the service of the temple. They were likely descendants of the Gibeonites, who were assigned to serve the Israelites after deceiving Joshua (Joshua 9). During the return from the Babylonian exile, these groups were essential in re-establishing the worship practices and maintaining the temple's operations in Jerusalem.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>of uncertain derivation<br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>one of the Nethinim<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>Besai (2).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Brown-Driver-Briggs</div> <font class="hebrew2">בֵּסַי</font> <font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>proper name, masculine</b></font> <font size="+1"><b>head of a family of Nethinim</b></font>, <font class="hebrew2">בְּנֵיבֵֿסַי</font> <a href="/interlinear/nehemiah/7-52.htm">Nehemiah 7:52</a> = <font class="hebrew2">בֵֿסָ֑י</font><font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">ב</font> <a href="/interlinear/ezra/2-49.htm">Ezra 2:49</a>. <p><font class="hebrew2">בסר</font> (<em>be too early</em>, Arabic <img src="/bdbgif/bdb012601.gif">, compare Aramaic <font class="hebrew2">בְּסִירָה</font> <em>half-ripe</em>). <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft2.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>Besai <p>From <a href="/hebrew/947.htm">buwc</a>; domineering; Besai, one of the Nethinim -- Besai. <p>see HEBREW <a href="/hebrew/947.htm">buwc</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>בֵסַ֥י בֵסָֽי׃ בסי בסי׃ ḇê·say ḇê·sāy ḇêsay ḇêsāy veSai<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/ezra/2-49.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Ezra 2:49</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/ezra/2.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3">פָסֵ֖חַ בְּנֵ֥י <b> בֵסָֽי׃ </b> </span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/ezra/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> of Paseah, the sons <span class="itali">of Besai,</span><br><a href="/kjvs/ezra/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> of Paseah, the children <span class="itali">of Besai,</span><br><a href="/interlinear/ezra/2-49.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> of Paseah the sons <span class="itali">of Besai</span><p><b><a href="/text/nehemiah/7-52.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Nehemiah 7:52</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3"> בְּנֵי־ <b> בֵסַ֥י </b> בְּנֵי־ מְעוּנִ֖ים</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/nehemiah/7.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> the sons <span class="itali">of Besai,</span> the sons of Meunim,<br><a href="/kjvs/nehemiah/7.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> The children <span class="itali">of Besai,</span> the children<br><a href="/interlinear/nehemiah/7-52.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> the sons <span class="itali">of Besai</span> the sons of Meunim<p><i><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1153.htm">2 Occurrences</a></i><br /><br /><b><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1153.htm">Strong's Hebrew 1153<br>2 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/hebrew/vesai_1153.htm">ḇê·sāy — 2 Occ.</a><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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