One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Bilgah. Every Bilgah in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Nehemiah 10:8
- last named
- Nehemiah 10:8
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Bilgah?
Bilgah, also known as Bilgai, was a priest who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian exile (Neh. 12:5). He is mentioned among the priests who settled in Jerusalem during the time of Nehemiah. Later, Bilgai, likely the same person as Bilgah, is listed among the priests who sealed the covenant during Nehemiah's reforms (Neh. 10:8). The covenant was a solemn agreement made by the returned exiles to follow the Law of God and maintain their distinct identity as God's chosen people. By sealing the covenant, Bilgah/Bilgai and the other priests pledged to uphold its terms, which included observing the Sabbath, avoiding intermarriage with foreigners, and supporting the temple service. Bilgah/Bilgai's presence as a priest during this significant period highlights the importance of the priestly role in the restoration of Jerusalem and the spiritual renewal of the Jewish community after the exile.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
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 Bilgah 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.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.
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.
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