3 others in the registry answer to the name Hodiah. Every Hodiah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 10:18
- last named
- Nehemiah 10:18
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Hodiah?
Hodiah is mentioned in Neh.10.18 as one of the priests who signed the covenant to follow the Law of God during the time of Nehemiah. This covenant was a solemn agreement made by the Israelites to obey God's commandments, separate themselves from the surrounding nations, and support the temple service.
As a priest, Hodiah would have had specific responsibilities related to the temple worship and the teaching of the Law. By signing the covenant, he publicly demonstrated his commitment to God's Law and his support for the spiritual and social reforms initiated by Nehemiah.
The participation of priests in the covenant signing was crucial, as they were the religious leaders of the community and were responsible for maintaining the purity of worship and the adherence to God's commandments. Hodiah's involvement in this event highlights his role as a priest and his dedication to the spiritual well-being of the Israelites during this period of rebuilding and renewal.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
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 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.
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