- verses
- 5
- first named
- Numbers 1:15
- last named
- Numbers 10:27
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Naphtali
Description
Who was Enan?
Enan is mentioned in the Bible as the father of Ahira, who was the leader of the tribe of Naphtali during the Israelites' wilderness journey after the Exodus from Egypt. Enan's name appears multiple times in the book of Numbers in connection with his son's leadership role. In the census of the Israelites taken in the wilderness of Sinai, Ahira son of Enan is listed as the leader of the tribe of Naphtali (Num.1.15). The tribe of Naphtali, under Ahira's leadership, was positioned on the north side of the tabernacle, along with the tribes of Dan and Asher (Num.2.29). During the dedication of the tabernacle, Ahira son of Enan brought the offering for the tribe of Naphtali on the twelfth day (Num.7.78,83). Later, when the Israelites set out from the wilderness of Sinai, the tribe of Naphtali, led by Ahira, was assigned to march last, along with the tribes of Dan and Asher (Num.10.27). Although Enan himself is not mentioned in any other context, his repeated mention as the father of Ahira highlights the significance of family lineage in the leadership structure of the Israelite tribes during their wilderness journey.
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
- AhiraregistryNumbers 1:15Numbers 2:29Numbers 7:78 +2
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 Enan 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.
5 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (5).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, 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.
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