14 others in the registry answer to the name Hananiah. Every Hananiah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 7:2
- last named
- Nehemiah 7:2
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Hananiah?
Hananiah is mentioned in Neh.7.2 as one of the individuals appointed by Nehemiah as a governor of Jerusalem. After the completion of the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem, Nehemiah needed reliable leaders to oversee the city's security and administration. He chose Hananiah, along with his brother Hanani, because they were considered more faithful and God-fearing than others. As a governor, Hananiah was responsible for maintaining order, protecting the city, and ensuring the well-being of its inhabitants. Nehemiah's selection of Hananiah for this important role indicates his trust in Hananiah's character and abilities. The appointment of faithful individuals like Hananiah was crucial for the stability and prosperity of Jerusalem in the post-exilic period.
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.
Stands in the same events as
- Jerusalem1 event
- Levi1 event
- Singer1 event
- Gatekeeper1 event
- Hanani1 event
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.
The pattern
Where Hananiah 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.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, 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.
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.
Sources