- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 3:8
- last named
- Nehemiah 3:8
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Harhaiah?
Harhaiah is mentioned in Neh.3.8 as a goldsmith whose son, Uzziel, was involved in repairing a section of Jerusalem's wall during the time of Nehemiah. After the Babylonian exile, Nehemiah, a Jewish official serving in the Persian court, received permission from King Artaxerxes to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the city's walls. Nehemiah organized the people of Jerusalem to work on different sections of the wall, with various individuals and families taking responsibility for specific portions. Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, is recorded as one of the goldsmiths who made repairs next to the section repaired by the men of Jericho. The mention of Harhaiah's profession as a goldsmith suggests that he was a skilled craftsman, and his son's involvement in the wall repair project indicates the participation of people from various trades and backgrounds in this important task. The rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls was crucial for the security and restoration of the Jewish community in the post-exilic period, and the collective effort demonstrated the unity and determination of the people to restore their city and their faith.
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.
Father of
- UzzielregistryNehemiah 3:8
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 Harhaiah 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.
Sources