person
Hareph
חָרֵף
Hareph, a descendant of Caleb, was the father of Beth-gader, as mentioned in the genealogy of Judah.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 2:51
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 2:51
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Hareph?
Hareph is mentioned briefly in 1Ch.2.51 as a descendant of Caleb, the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. He is identified as the father of Beth-gader, which is likely a reference to a town or a region associated with his family. The genealogy in 1Chronicles 2 traces the descendants of Judah, focusing particularly on the line of Caleb, who was one of the faithful spies who encouraged the Israelites to trust in God and enter the Promised Land (Numbers 13-14). Caleb was rewarded for his faithfulness with a special inheritance in the land of Canaan. The mention of Hareph in this genealogy highlights the importance of family lineage and the recording of descendants in the Old Testament. It also shows how the tribe of Judah, from which King David and ultimately Jesus Christ would descend, grew and established itself in the land of Israel.
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 11 are drawn. All 11 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 Hareph 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 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
1 Chronicles1 verse
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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