Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(fatherly).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
BEB'AI (paternal), the ancestor of some who came back with Zerubbabel. Ezr 2:11; Neh 7:16. Later on some more returned with Ezra. Ezr 8:11. Four of these came up for censure as the husbands of foreign wives, Ezr 10:28; but the cognomen was attached to the covenant. Neh 10:15.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
void, empty