BIGVAI bĭg’ vī (בִּגְוַ֖י). 1. The head of a family that returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2; Neh 7:7). More than 2,000 attendants went with him (Ezra 2:14; Neh 7:19). Some members of the family came from Persia with Ezra (Ezra 8:14; 1 Esd 5:14 [KJV, ASV BAGOI], 8:40 [KJV, ASV BAGO]).

2. A man who signed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh 10:16).