Shobai
שֹׁבָ֑יStrong’s H7630shovay (sho-vay)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shovay is the Hebrew word usually translated “shobai”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.42
How it's translated
- shobai 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Nehemiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
שֹׁבָ֑י shovay · 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.