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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

be'-si (becay, "downtrodden"): The descendants of Besai (Nethinim) returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezr 2:49; Ne 7:52 = Basthai, 1 Esdras 5:31).