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

person

Eliphaz

אֱלִיפַז

Eliphaz was the firstborn son of Esau and the father of several Edomite clans.

verses
8
first named
Genesis 36:4
last named
1 Chronicles 1:36
period
the Patriarchs
tribe
Edom

Description

Who was Eliphaz?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Eliphaz was the firstborn son of Esau, born to his wife Adah (Gen.36.4). He became the father of several sons, including Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, Kenaz, and Amalek (through his concubine Timna) (Gen.36.11-12). These sons grew into clans within the Edomite nation, with Eliphaz's descendants being listed among the chiefs of Edom (Gen.36.15-16). Eliphaz's lineage is also recorded in the genealogy of Esau in 1Ch.1.35-36. As the firstborn of Esau, Eliphaz played a significant role in the establishment and growth of the Edomite people, who were the descendants of Esau. The Bible does not provide any further details about Eliphaz's life or personal characteristics.

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 Eliphaz 10 of 17 entities the graph connects to Eliphaz, in 2 groups: kinship 8, 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.EsauChild of · 1 event · 84 versesTemanFather of · 13 versesAdahChild of · 1 event · 6 versesReuelSibling of · 6 versesTimnaPartner of · 6 versesKenazFather of · 5 versesJalamSibling of · 4 versesJeushSibling of · 4 versesKinshipEdom1 event · 100 versesChief1 event · 18 versesEventsEliphaz

The 10 best-attested of 17 are drawn. All 17 are listed below.

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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 Eliphaz happens The one place the claims about Eliphaz reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Edom. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Eliphaz 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.Edom
the PatriarchsThe one place the claims about Eliphaz reach

The pattern

Where Eliphaz 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. 8 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS6 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSES53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 8 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS6 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSES53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

8 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (6) and 1 Chronicles (2).

Eliphaz is named in 8 verses, and the name is written 9 times in them — 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 — 8, across 2 books. The name is written 9 times in them.

  1. Genesis6 verses

    36:436:1036:1136:1236:1536:16

  2. 1 Chronicles2 verses

    1:351:36

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.

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.

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