3 others in the registry answer to the name Hodiah. Every Hodiah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 4:19
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 4:19
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah(?)
Description
Who was Hodiah?
Hodiah is mentioned in 1Ch.4.19 as the wife of a man named Ishbar or possibly Mered, who was a descendant of Judah. The text is complex, but states either that she is married to Ishbah or that she is one of the wives of his father Mered. She is described as the sister of Naham.
Hodiah gave birth to several children, including the Garmites who founded Keilah the and the Maacathites who founded Eshtemoa (though the text at 1Ch.4.19 is ambiguous). These individuals were likely significant figures or groups within their respective communities, as they are mentioned by their place of origin or association.
The inclusion of Hodiah in this genealogy of Judah underscores the importance of family lineage and the role of women in the history of Israel. Although no further details are provided about Hodiah's life, her mention in the biblical record indicates that she was an ancestor of notable individuals within the tribe of Judah.
The passage also highlights the practice of polygamy in ancient Israel, as Mered is recorded as having two wives. However, the biblical text does not provide any commentary on the practice itself, focusing instead on the genealogical record and the descendants of these unions.
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.
Child of
- father of Hodiahregistry, no verse
Mother of
- Garmitesregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Maacathitesregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
Partner of
- Ishbahregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
Sibling of
- Nahamregistry, no verse
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 Hodiah 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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