- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Kings 4:6
- last named
- 1 Kings 4:6
- period
- United Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Ahishar?
Ahishar is mentioned briefly in the context of King Solomon's administration. He was appointed as the official in charge of Solomon's palace, which was a significant responsibility. (1Ki.4.6)
The palace overseer would have been responsible for managing the daily operations of the royal household, ensuring that the needs of the king and his court were met, and maintaining the upkeep of the palace itself. This role required a person of trust, efficiency, and organizational skills.
The fact that Ahishar is mentioned by name suggests that he was a prominent figure in Solomon's court and held a position of importance. However, no further details about his background, his specific duties, or his tenure as palace overseer are provided in the biblical text.
Ahishar's role is listed among other key officials in Solomon's administration, such as Azariah, who was in charge of the district governors, and Zabud, a priest and the king's friend. (1Ki.4.5,7) This context highlights the structure and organization of Solomon's kingdom during his reign.
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 Ahishar 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 Kings (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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