One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ahab. Every Ahab in the Bible

person

Ahab

אַחְאָב

Ahab, son of Omri, reigned as king of Israel and did evil in the sight of the Lord.

Illustration1 Kings 22Ahab's attempt to avoid recognition in battle does not protect him: a random arrow strikes him through the gap in his armor, and he bleeds in his chariot.
verses
79
first named
1 Kings 16:28
last named
2 Chronicles 22:6
period
Divided Monarchy
tribe
Israel

Description

Who was Ahab?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Ahab was the son of Omri and the seventh king of Israel, reigning for 22 years in Samaria. He did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of his predecessors. Ahab married Jezebel, daughter of the king of Sidon, and began to worship Baal. He built a temple and altar for Baal in Samaria and made an Asherah pole, provoking the anger of the Lord. (1Ki.16.28-33)

During Ahab's reign, the prophet Elijah declared a drought in Israel. Later, Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, proving the Lord to be the true God. (1Ki.17-18) Ahab fought wars against Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, with the Lord granting him victories. (1Ki.20).

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.

How the graph connects Ahab 10 of 18 entities the graph connects to Ahab, in 2 groups: kinship 2, events 8. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.JezebelPartner of · 6 events · 20 versesJoramFather of · 19 versesKinshipIsrael6 events · 2,578 versesSamaria8 events · 124 versesSyria3 events · 116 versesElijah7 events · 92 versesJehoshaphat10 events · 67 versesRamoth7 events · 35 versesMicaiah4 events · 18 versesNaboth6 events · 18 versesEventsAhab

The 10 best-attested of 18 are drawn. All 18 are listed below.

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Stands in the same events as

and 29 more, ordered by how many events they share.

Places

Where this happens

The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

Where the story of Ahab happens All 4 places the claims about Ahab reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Samaria, Jezreel, Carmel_Mount, Ramoth. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Ahab there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.SamariaJezreelCarmel_MountRamoth
Divided MonarchyAll 4 places the claims about Ahab reach

The pattern

Where Ahab 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. 79 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1–2 KINGS66 VERSESMICAH1 VERSE18 books and 490 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 79 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1–2 KINGS66 VERSESMICAH1 VERSE18 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

79 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (44), 2 Kings (22), 2 Chronicles (12) and Micah (1).

Ahab is named in 79 verses, and the name is written 91 times in them — 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. 62 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 — 79, across 4 books. The name is written 91 times in them.

  1. 1 Kings44 verses

    16:2816:2916:3016:3317:118:118:218:318:518:618:918:1218:1618:1718:2018:4118:4218:4418:4518:4619:120:220:1320:1421:121:221:321:421:821:1521:1621:1821:2021:2121:2421:2521:2721:2922:2022:3922:4022:4122:4922:51

  2. 2 Kings22 verses

    1:13:13:58:168:188:258:278:288:299:79:89:99:259:2910:110:1010:1110:1710:1810:3021:321:13

  3. 2 Chronicles12 verses

    18:118:218:318:1921:621:1322:322:422:522:622:722:8

  4. Micah1 verse

    6:16

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.

Where they appear

Chapter by chapter

Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

4 more chapters, from 2 Kings 8 to 2 Chronicles 18

Sources

What this rests on