Bigvai is named at more than one point on the road back from Babylon. He is among the leaders who came “with Zerubbabel”, and Nehemiah counts his family as “two thousand threescore and seven.” In Ezra’s later company stand “the sons also of Bigvai”, with Uthai, Zabbud and seventy males. A Bigvai is listed again among the names in Nehemiah 10. Whether these are one man or his descendants the text does not say, but the repeated name shows a household that stayed in the story across years of rebuilding. Ezra 8 shows the family setting out.
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Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
William Smith, 1884
(happy).
(1.) "Children of Bigvai," 2056 (Neh. 2067) in number, returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel, (Ezra 2:14; Nehemiah 7:19) and 72 of them at a later date with Ezra. (Ezra 8:14) (B.C. 536.)
(2.) Apparently one of the chiefs of Zerubbabel’s expedition, (Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7) whose family afterwards signed the covenant. (Nehemiah 10:16) (B.C. 410.)