- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Samuel 9:1
- last named
- 1 Samuel 9:1
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Benjamin
Description
Who was Becorath?
Becorath is mentioned in 1Sa.9.1 as an ancestor of King Saul, the first king of Israel. The passage introduces Saul's family background, stating that he was "a Benjamite, a man of standing." Becorath is listed in Saul's genealogy as the son of Aphiah and the father of Zeror, who was the grandfather of Saul's father, Kish. This genealogical information serves to establish Saul's lineage within the tribe of Benjamin and to highlight his family's status and influence. The mention of Becorath and the other ancestors of Saul emphasizes the importance of family heritage in Israelite society, particularly in relation to leadership and social standing.
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.
Child of
- Aphiahregistry1 Samuel 9:1
Father of
- Zerorregistry1 Samuel 9:1
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 Becorath 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 Samuel (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
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.
Sources