- verses
- 1
- first named
- Leviticus 24:11
- last named
- Leviticus 24:11
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Dibri?
Dibri, a man from the tribe of Dan, is mentioned in Lev.24.11 as the father of Shelomith, whose son was involved in a blasphemy incident in the Israelite camp. The verse states that Shelomith's son, whose father was an Egyptian, blasphemed the name of God and cursed during a fight with an Israelite man.
As a result of this incident, God instructed Moses that the man who blasphemed should be brought outside the camp and stoned to death by the congregation (Lev.24.14). This event also led to the establishment of a law stating that anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death (Lev.24.16).
Dibri's mention in this passage serves to identify Shelomith and her son, highlighting the fact that the blasphemer was the offspring of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man. This detail may suggest that the man's mixed background influenced his actions or that his offense was particularly egregious because he was not a full-blooded Israelite.
The incident involving Dibri's grandson emphasizes the seriousness of blasphemy in ancient Israelite society and the importance of revering God's name. It also demonstrates that God's laws applied equally to all those living among the Israelites, regardless of their lineage.
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.
Father of
- ShelomithregistryLeviticus 24:11
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 Dibri 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 Leviticus (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.
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