- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Kings 4:31
- last named
- 1 Kings 4:31
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Darda?
Darda is mentioned in 1Ki.4.31 as one of the wise men whom King Solomon's wisdom surpassed. He is listed alongside Ethan the Ezrahite and the sons of Mahol, suggesting that he was a well-known figure renowned for his wisdom during that time.
The context of this passage emphasizes the exceptional wisdom that God had granted to Solomon, stating that his wisdom was greater than that of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. By comparing Solomon's wisdom to that of Darda and the other wise men, the text highlights the unparalleled nature of Solomon's God-given wisdom.
Apart from this single mention, no other details about Darda's life, background, or specific areas of wisdom are provided in the Bible.
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.
Child of
- Maholregistry1 Kings 4:31
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.
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The pattern
Where Darda 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 1 Kings (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
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.
Sources