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    3 others in the registry answer to the name Bela. Every Bela in the Bible

    person

    Bela

    בֶּ֫לַע

    Bela, son of Beor, was the first king to reign in Edom before Israel had a king.

    verses
    4
    first named
    Genesis 36:32
    last named
    1 Chronicles 1:44
    period
    the Patriarchs
    tribe
    Edom

    Description

    Who was Bela?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Bela, the son of Beor, is mentioned in Gen.36.32-33 and 1Ch.1.43-44 as the first king of Edom. The context of these passages is the genealogy of Esau, also known as Edom, and the list of kings who reigned in Edom before Israel had a king. Bela is described as reigning in Edom, with his city named Dinhabah. The mention of Bela as the first king suggests that he played a significant role in establishing the Edomite monarchy. The fact that he reigned before Israel had a king highlights the political development of Edom as a nation.

    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 Bela 10 of 10 entities the graph connects to Bela, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 9. 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.BeorChild of · 2 versesKinshipIsrael1 event · 2,578 versesReign1 event · 174 versesEdom2 events · 100 versesHadad1 event · 4 versesHusham1 event · 4 versesJobab2 events · 4 versesSamlah1 event · 4 versesShaul1 event · 4 versesMasrekah1 event · 2 versesEventsBela

    Child of

    Stands in the same events as

    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 Bela happens All 2 places the claims about Bela reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Edom, Masrekah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Bela 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.EdomMasrekah
    the PatriarchsAll 2 places the claims about Bela reach

    The pattern

    Where Bela 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. 4 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS2 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSES53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS2 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSES53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Bela is named in 4 verses — 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. 64 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 — 4, across 2 books.

    1. Genesis2 verses

      36:3236:33

    2. 1 Chronicles2 verses

      1:431:44

    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.

    ElsewhereDavidAnointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus ChristElsewhereBenjaminYoungest son of Jacob and RachelElsewhereIsraelPatriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

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