BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7630
sho.vay — Shobai
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.42 § Shobai = "glorious" ancestor of a family of doorkeepers of the temple who returned with Zerubbabel
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Captors (Ezra 2:42).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
