One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Addar. Every Addar in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 8:3
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 8:3
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Benjamin
Description
Who was Addar?
Addar, also known as Ard, was a son of Bela, who was one of the sons of Benjamin, the patriarch (1Ch.8.3). He is mentioned in the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin, which lists the descendants of Benjamin's sons.
In the parallel genealogies found in Gen.46.21 and Num.26.40, Addar is referred to as Ard. This variation in names is not uncommon in biblical genealogies and may be due to differences in spelling, pronunciation, or the use of alternative names for the same individual.
As a grandson of Benjamin, Addar would have been part of the generation that entered Egypt with Israel (or 'Jacob') and his family (Gen.46.1-27). The tribe of Benjamin, along with the other Israelite tribes, grew in number during their time in Egypt and later participated in the Exodus under the leadership of Moses.
No further information is provided about Addar's life, his role within the tribe, or any notable events associated with him. His mention in the genealogy serves to document the descendants of Benjamin and to highlight the continuity of the tribal lineage from the time of the patriarchs to the formation of the nation of Israel.
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 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
Child of
- Belaregistry1 Chronicles 8:3
Sibling of
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 Addar 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 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
1 Chronicles1 verse
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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