One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Abiel. Every Abiel in the Bible
- verses
- 6
- first named
- 1 Samuel 9:1
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 9:37
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Benjamin
Description
Who was Abiel?
Abiel, also referred to as Jeiel, Ner, or Abigibeon (or '[re]-founder of Gibeon'), was a Benjaminite and the father of Kish, who was the father of King Saul, Israel's first king. In 1Sa.9.1, Abiel is mentioned as the father of Kish and is described as a mighty man of power. The genealogies in 1Chronicles 8 and 9 provide additional information about Abiel's family.
In 1Ch.8.33 and 1Ch.9.39, he is called Ner, while in 1Ch.8.29 and 1Ch.9.35, he is referred to as Jeiel and Abigibeon or '[re]-founder of Gibeon'. These variations in names suggest that he may have been known by multiple names or that there might have been some discrepancies in the genealogical records. Abiel's son Kish became the father of Saul, who was anointed as the first king of Israel by the prophet Samuel.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.
Child of
- Zerorregistry1 Samuel 9:1
Father of
- Abdonregistry1 Chronicles 9:36
- Ahioregistry1 Chronicles 9:37
- Baalregistry1 Chronicles 9:36
- Gedorregistry1 Chronicles 9:37
- Kishregistry1 Samuel 9:11 Samuel 14:511 Chronicles 9:36
- Miklothregistry1 Chronicles 9:37
- Nadabregistry1 Chronicles 9:36
- Nerregistry1 Samuel 14:511 Chronicles 9:36
- Zecherregistry1 Chronicles 9:37
- Zurregistry1 Chronicles 9:36
- Gibeon1 Chronicles 9:35
Partner of
- Maacahregistry1 Chronicles 9:35
Stands in the same events as
- Gibeon1 event
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 Abiel 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.
6 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Samuel (2) and 1 Chronicles (4).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 6, across 2 books. The name is written 8 times in them.
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.
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