- verses
- 1
- first named
- Luke 3:28
- last named
- Luke 3:28
- period
- Exile and Return
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Addi?
Addi is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ recorded in the Gospel of Luke (Luk.3.28). He is listed as the son of Cosam and the father of Melchi, and he appears in the lineage between David and Joseph, the husband of Mary.
The genealogy in Luke traces Jesus' ancestry back to Adam, the first man, highlighting His connection to all of humanity. The inclusion of Addi in this genealogy demonstrates the importance of family lineage and the continuity of God's plan throughout history.
However, little is known about Addi beyond his mention in the genealogy. The Bible does not provide any additional information about his life, his occupation, or his role in the family line. His name is not mentioned in any other biblical passages or historical records.
The presence of Addi in the genealogy of Jesus serves to affirm the historical reality of Christ's human ancestry and His connection to the Davidic line. It also emphasizes the faithfulness of God in preserving the lineage of the Messiah throughout the generations, from Abraham to David, and ultimately to Jesus Christ.
As with many of the individuals mentioned in biblical genealogies, Addi's significance lies primarily in his place within the larger narrative of God's redemptive plan, rather than in the details of his personal life or achievements.
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 Addi 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 Luke (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.
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