One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ebed. Every Ebed in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 8:6
- last named
- Ezra 8:6
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Ebed?
Ebed is mentioned in Ezr.8.6 as one of the descendants of Adin who returned to Jerusalem with Ezra during the second wave of the return from Babylonian exile. This return took place during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, who granted Ezra permission to lead a group of exiles back to Jerusalem (Ezr.7.11-26).
Ezra, a priest and scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, gathered a group of Israelites, including priests, Levites, and laypeople, to return to Jerusalem. The purpose of this return was to reestablish proper worship and religious practices in the city and to strengthen the Jewish community there.
In preparation for the journey, Ezra proclaimed a fast by the river Ahava, seeking God's protection and guidance (Ezr.8.21-23). He also took measures to ensure the safety of the temple treasures they were carrying and to appoint leaders among the priests and Levites (Ezr.8.24-30).
Ebed, as a descendant of Adin, was part of this group of returnees. The mention of his name and lineage highlights the diverse composition of the returning exiles and the importance of maintaining genealogical records.
Apart from this brief mention, no further information is provided about Ebed's specific role or contributions during the return to Jerusalem or the subsequent events recorded in the book of Ezra.
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.
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The pattern
Where Ebed 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 Ezra (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.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources