3 others in the registry answer to the name Gilead. Every Gilead in the Bible
- verses
- 9
- first named
- Numbers 26:29
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 7:18
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Manasseh
Description
Who was Gilead?
Gilead, the son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh, is mentioned in several genealogical lists in the Old Testament. In Num.26.29-30, he is identified as the ancestor of the Gileadite clans, which included Iezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Shemida, and Hepher. These clans are also mentioned in Jos.17.1-2, where they are described as receiving an inheritance in the land of Canaan. In Num.27.1 and Jos.17.3, Gilead's great-granddaughters, the daughters of Zelophehad, appeal to Moses for the right to inherit their father's property in the absence of male heirs. This incident leads to a change in the inheritance laws, allowing daughters to inherit property when there are no male heirs (Num.27.2-11). In 1Ch.2.21-23 and 1Ch.7.14-17, Gilead is mentioned in the genealogies of Manasseh, confirming his role as a significant ancestor of the tribe. The repeated mentions of Gilead in these genealogical lists highlight the importance of family lineage and tribal identity in ancient Israelite society.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.
Ancestor of
Child of
- Maacahregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- MachirregistryNumbers 26:291 Chronicles 2:211 Chronicles 2:23 +4
Descendant of
Father of
- Abiezerregistry, no verse
- Asrielregistry, no verse
- Helekregistry, no verse
- HepherregistryNumbers 27:1Joshua 17:3
- Shechemregistry, no verse
- Shemidaregistry, no verse
Parent of
Sibling of
- daughter of Machirregistry, no verse
- Hammolechethregistry1 Chronicles 7:18
- Pereshregistry, no verse
- Shereshregistry, no verse
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 Gilead 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.
9 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (3), Joshua (2) and 1 Chronicles (4).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 9, across 3 books. The name is written 10 times in them.
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.
Sources