8 others in the registry answer to the name Hanan. Every Hanan in the Bible
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Nehemiah 8:7
- last named
- Nehemiah 10:10
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Hanan?
Hanan is mentioned in Neh.8.7 as one of the Levites who helped Ezra, the priest and scribe, in explaining the Law to the people. After the return from Babylonian exile, Ezra read the Book of the Law to the assembled Israelites during the Feast of Tabernacles (Neh.8.1-3). Hanan, along with several other Levites, stood beside Ezra and helped the people understand the Law, translating and explaining it clearly (Neh.8.7-8). This event marked a significant moment in the spiritual revival of the post-exilic community, as the people rediscovered and recommitted themselves to the teachings of the Law. In Neh.10.10, Hanan is also listed among the Levites who signed the covenant to follow the Law of God, demonstrating his commitment to the spiritual renewal of the people.
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 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
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 Hanan 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.
2 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
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.
Sources