- verses
- 1
- first named
- Esther 1:14
- last named
- Esther 1:14
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Carshena?
Carshena was one of the seven princes of Persia and Media who served in the court of King Ahasuerus, also known as Xerxes (Est.1.14). These princes were the closest advisors to the king and had the privilege of direct access to his presence. They were known for their knowledge of the law and their understanding of the times. When Queen Vashti refused to appear before the king during a royal feast, Ahasuerus consulted with his wise men, including Carshena, to determine the appropriate response according to the law (Est.1.15). The inclusion of Carshena among the named princes highlights his high status and influence within the Persian court during the events described in the book of Esther.
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.
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 Carshena 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 Esther (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
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.
Sources