One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Elhanan. Every Elhanan in the Bible

person

Elhanan

אֶלְחָנָן

Elhanan, a warrior from Bethlehem, killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite.

verses
2
first named
2 Samuel 21:19
last named
1 Chronicles 20:5
period
United Monarchy
role
Man

Description

Who was Elhanan?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Elhanan is mentioned in 2Sa.21.19 and 1Ch.20.5 as a warrior from Bethlehem who fought against the Philistines. In 2 Samuel, he is described as the son of Jaare-oregim, while in 1 Chronicles, he is called the son of Jair. Elhanan is noted for killing Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite. This event is similar to David's famous battle with Goliath, but Elhanan's victory highlights the ongoing conflicts between Israel and the Philistines. The passages suggest that Elhanan was a skilled warrior who played a significant role in Israel's military successes.

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.

How the graph connects Elhanan 3 of 3 entities the graph connects to Elhanan, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 2. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Jaare-oregimChild of · 2 versesKinshipGezer1 event · 16 versesLahmi2 events · 3 versesEventsElhanan

Child of

Stands in the same events as

Places

Where this happens

The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

Where the story of Elhanan happens The one place the claims about Elhanan reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Gezer. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Elhanan there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Gezer
United MonarchyThe one place the claims about Elhanan reach

The pattern

Where Elhanan 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.

Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS2 SAMUEL1 VERSE53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS2 SAMUEL1 VERSE53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Samuel (1) and 1 Chronicles (1).

Elhanan is named in 2 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

Read it

Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.

  1. 2 Samuel1 verse

    21:19

  2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

    20:5

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

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