One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Achbor. Every Achbor in the Bible
person
Achbor
עַכְבּוֹר
Achbor was an Edomite king, the son of Baal-hanan, who reigned before the establishment of the Israelite monarchy.
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Genesis 36:38
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:49
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Edom
Description
Who was Achbor?
Achbor was an Edomite king mentioned in the genealogies of Esau, the son of Isaac and the brother of Israel (or 'Jacob') (Gen.36.38,39; 1Ch.1.49). He was the son of Baal-hanan and reigned as king of Edom. The genealogies in Genesis and 1 Chronicles list the kings who ruled in Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites.
No further information is provided about Achbor's reign or his accomplishments as king. His mention in the genealogies serves to document the succession of Edomite kings and to provide historical context for the relationship between the Edomites and the Israelites.
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.
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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 Achbor 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.
3 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (2) and 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 2 books.
Genesis2 verses
1 Chronicles1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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