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HebrewH7630Proper Noun (Masculine)

שֹׁבָ֑י

sho.vay

2Occurrences
H7630Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shobai, an Israelite

for H7629 (שֹׁבִי);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at § Shobai = "glorious" ancestor of a family of doorkeepers of the temple who returned with Zerubbabel

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שֹׁבָ֑י appears 2 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

Ezra 2:42BSB

The gatekeepers:the descendants of Shallum,the descendants of Ater,the descendants of Talmon,the descendants of Akkub,the descendants of Hatita,and the descendants of Shobai,139 in all.

Nehemiah 7:45BSB

The gatekeepers:the descendants of Shallum,the descendants of Ater,the descendants of Talmon,the descendants of Akkub,the descendants of Hatita,and the descendants of Shobai,138 in all.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.