person
Anah
עֲנָה
Anah was a Horite, the father of Oholibamah, one of Esau's wives, and the discoverer of hot springs in the wilderness.
- verses
- 10
- first named
- Genesis 36:2
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:41
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Edom
Description
Who was Anah?
Anah was a Horite, a descendant of Seir, who lived in the land of Edom. He was the father of Oholibamah, one of Esau's wives. Anah is mentioned in the genealogies of Esau and Seir, both in Genesis and 1 Chronicles.
One notable event associated with Anah is his discovery of hot springs in the wilderness while he was grazing his father's donkeys. This discovery suggests that Anah was an observant and resourceful individual.
Anah is also referred to as a Hivite in one passage, which may indicate that the Horites and Hivites were related or that Anah had a connection to both groups. As the father-in-law of Esau, Anah played a role in the intermarriage between the Edomites and the Horites, which had significant implications for the history of the region.
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 11 are drawn. All 11 are listed below.
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.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Anah 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.
10 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (7) and 1 Chronicles (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 10, across 2 books.
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.
Sources