7 others in the registry answer to the name Adaiah. Every Adaiah in the Bible

person

Adaiah

עֲדָיָ֫הוּ

Adaiah, a priest and descendant of Malchijah, served in the house of God during the post-exilic period in Jerusalem.

verses
2
first named
1 Chronicles 9:12
last named
Nehemiah 11:13
period
Exile and Return
tribe
Levi

Description

Who was Adaiah?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Adaiah was a priest who served in the house of God during the post-exilic period in Jerusalem. He was a descendant of Malchijah, who was one of the priestly families (1Ch.9.12; Neh.11.12). Adaiah is mentioned in the lists of priests who resided in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.

In the genealogy of the priests in 1Chronicles 9, Adaiah is listed as the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah (1Ch.9.12). This genealogy emphasizes the priestly lineage and the continuity of the priestly service in the temple after the exile.

Neh.11.12 mentions Adaiah as one of the priests who lived in Jerusalem during the time of Nehemiah. He is described as the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah.

Adaiah's inclusion in these lists highlights the importance of the priestly families in the restoration of the temple and the religious life of the Jewish community after the Babylonian exile.

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 Adaiah 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.

Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1 CHRONICLES1 VERSE50 books and 763 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1 CHRONICLES1 VERSE50 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (1) and Nehemiah (1).

Adaiah is named in 2 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

Read it

Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.

  1. 1 Chronicles1 verse

    9:12

  2. Nehemiah1 verse

    11:12

Onward

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