SABI (1Es_5:28) = Shobai, Ezr_2:42, Neh_7:45.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
sā?bı̄:
(1) Codex Alexandrinus Σαβεί, Sabeı́; Codex Vaticanus Τωβείς, Tōbeı́s, Fritzache; the King James Version, Sami): Eponym of a family of porters who returned with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:28) = ?Shobai? in Ezr_2:42; Neh_7:45.
(2) The King James Version = the Revised Version (British and American) SABIE (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Sabi
[or rather SABI'E, as in the earliest editions of the A.V.] (Σαβιή, v.r. Σαβείν), given in 1Es_5:34 as the head of one of the families of Solomon's servants who returned from Jerusalem; apparently a false Graecism for the ZEBAIM SEE ZEBAIM (q.v.) of the Heb. lists (Ezr_2:57; Neh_7:59).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.