person
Hanamel
חֲנַמְאֵל
Hanamel, Jeremiah's cousin, sold a field to the prophet as a sign of future restoration during the Babylonian siege.
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Jeremiah 32:7
- last named
- Jeremiah 32:13
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Hanamel?
Hanamel was the cousin of the prophet Jeremiah and is mentioned in the context of Jeremiah's purchase of a field during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem (Jer.32.7-12). While Jeremiah was imprisoned in the court of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him, revealing that Hanamel would come and offer to sell him a field in Anathoth, Jeremiah's hometown (Jer.32.7-8). As prophesied, Hanamel visited Jeremiah and offered to sell him the field, which was Jeremiah's right to redeem as a close relative (Jer.32.8). Jeremiah purchased the field, weighed out the money, signed and sealed the deed, and had it witnessed (Jer.32.9-12). This transaction served as a symbolic act, demonstrating Jeremiah's faith in God's promise that houses, fields, and vineyards would once again be bought in the land of Judah, despite the impending Babylonian conquest (Jer.32.15). The purchase of the field from Hanamel was a sign of hope and future restoration for the people of Israel.
Relations
Direct connections
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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.
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The pattern
Where Hanamel 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.
4 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Jeremiah (4).
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