One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Adin. Every Adin in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 10:16
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Adin?
Adin is mentioned in Neh.10.16 as one of the leaders of the people who signed the covenant of faithfulness to God during the time of Nehemiah. This covenant was made after the completion of the wall of Jerusalem and the public reading of the Book of the Law.
In Nehemiah 9, the people of Israel gathered to confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors. They acknowledged God's goodness and faithfulness, despite their disobedience and the disobedience of their forefathers. Following this confession, the leaders of the people, including Adin, signed a covenant to follow God's law and to keep His commandments (Neh.10.1-29).
The signing of this covenant was a significant event in the spiritual reformation of the Jewish community after their return from Babylonian exile. It demonstrated their commitment to God and their desire to live according to His will.
Apart from being listed among the signatories of the covenant, no other information is provided about Adin's specific role, background, or family. His inclusion in the list highlights the unity and shared commitment of the leaders and the people in their dedication to God and His law.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
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 Adin 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 Nehemiah (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
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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