Bebai be'-ba-i, beb'-a-i (bebhay; Septuagint Bebai, "fatherly"):
(1) Descendants of B: returned with Ezra to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:11 called Babi; Ezra 8:37); one of these is Zechariah, the son of Bebai (Ezra 8:11, Zaeharias; Ezra 8:37). 623 returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:11, Ezra 5:13, Nehemiah 7:16 gives the number 628); some of these had married "strange wives" (Ezra 10:28, Ezra 9:29).
(2) A chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:15).
(3) An unknown town (Judith 15:4). Omitted in Codex Vaticanus and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A. D.)