- verses
- 1
- first named
- Esther 9:7
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Dalphon?
Dalphon is mentioned in Est.9.7 as one of the ten sons of Haman, the enemy of the Jews in the Persian Empire during the reign of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I). Haman had plotted to destroy all the Jews in the empire, but his plan was thwarted by Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai.
After Haman's downfall and execution, the king granted the Jews the right to defend themselves against their enemies. On the 13th day of the month of Adar, the Jews fought against those who sought to harm them. They defeated their enemies, and among those killed were the ten sons of Haman, including Dalphon.
Following their deaths, the bodies of Haman's sons were hanged on the gallows, likely the same gallows Haman had prepared for Mordecai (Est.9.13-14). This act served as a public display of the Jews' victory over their enemies and the downfall of Haman's family.
Apart from being listed as one of Haman's sons, no other details about Dalphon's life or actions are provided in the biblical text.
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 11 are drawn. All 11 are listed below.
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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 Dalphon 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).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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Where this page goes
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