- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Kings 4:11
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
- role
- Woman
Description
Who was a wife of Solomon?
In 1Ki.4.11, one of Solomon's wives is mentioned as the daughter of Abinadab. She is not named but is identified by her relation to her father, who was one of Solomon's twelve district governors. Abinadab was in charge of the district of Dor, a region located in the western part of Israel, near the Mediterranean coast. As part of the administrative structure of Solomon's kingdom, each district was responsible for providing provisions for the king and his household for one month of the year (1Ki.4.7). The mention of Abinadab's daughter as Solomon's wife suggests that the king may have arranged marriages with the daughters of his officials to strengthen political ties and loyalty within his kingdom. No further details about this particular wife or her relationship with Solomon are provided in the biblical text. Solomon is known to have had many wives, including foreign women, which eventually led to his downfall and the weakening of his commitment to God (1Ki.11.1-8).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where a wife of Solomon is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources