3 others in the registry answer to the name Bela. Every Bela in the Bible
- verses
- 7
- first named
- Genesis 46:21
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 8:5
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Benjamin
Description
Who was Bela?
Bela is mentioned in several passages (Gen.46.21; Num.26.38, 40; 1Ch.7.6, 7; 8.1, 3) as one of the sons of Benjamin, the youngest son of Israel (or 'Jacob'). He is consistently listed as the first among Benjamin's sons, suggesting his prominence within the family. In the census of the Israelites in the wilderness (Numbers 26), Bela is named as the head of the Belaite clan, one of the clans within the tribe of Benjamin. The descendants of Bela are also mentioned in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles, highlighting the continuity of his lineage. The repeated mention of Bela in these various contexts emphasizes his importance as a progenitor of the Benjamite tribe and the role of his clan in the history of Israel.
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 23 are drawn. All 23 are listed below.
Ancestor of
Child of
Descendant of
Father of
- Abihudregistry1 Chronicles 8:3
- Abishuaregistry1 Chronicles 8:4
- Addarregistry1 Chronicles 8:3
- Ahoahregistry1 Chronicles 8:4
- Ardregistry, no verse
- Ezbonregistry1 Chronicles 7:7
- Geraregistry1 Chronicles 8:3
- Iriregistry1 Chronicles 7:7
- Jerimothregistry1 Chronicles 7:7
- Naamanregistry1 Chronicles 8:4
- Uzziregistry1 Chronicles 7:7
- Uzzielregistry1 Chronicles 7:7
Parent of
Sibling of
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 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.
7 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1), Numbers (2) and 1 Chronicles (4).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 3 books. The name is written 8 times in them.
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