2 others in the registry answer to the name Ater. Every Ater in the Bible
person
Ater
אָטֵר
Ater was the head of a family of gatekeepers who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity (Ezr.2.42; Neh.7.45).
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Ezra 2:42
- last named
- Nehemiah 7:45
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Ater?
Ater is mentioned in the lists of people who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity, as recorded in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7. He was the head of a family of gatekeepers, also known as doorkeepers, who were responsible for guarding the entrances to the temple and maintaining order within its precincts. The gatekeepers played a crucial role in ensuring the security and sanctity of the temple. Ater's family, along with other gatekeepers, joined the group of exiles led by Zerubbabel in their return to Jerusalem, contributing to the restoration of temple worship and service.
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.
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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 Ater 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.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (1) and Nehemiah (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
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Where this page goes
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