person
Huppah
חֻפָּה
Huppah was a priest who was assigned the thirteenth division of priestly service during King David's reign.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 24:13
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 24:13
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Huppah?
Huppah is mentioned in 1Ch.24.13 as one of the priests who were assigned divisions of service in the temple during the reign of King David. He was the head of the thirteenth division of priestly service.
In 1Chronicles 24, David, along with Zadok and Ahimelech, organized the priests into twenty-four divisions for their service in the temple. This organization was done to ensure a systematic and orderly approach to the priestly duties, which included offering sacrifices, maintaining the temple, and teaching the law to the people.
Each division was assigned a specific period of service, and the order was determined by casting lots. Huppah's division was the thirteenth in the order of service.
The organization of the priestly divisions by David was a significant step in establishing a structured and efficient system for the temple service. It also ensured that all the priestly families had an opportunity to serve in the temple and that the responsibilities were evenly distributed among them.
Apart from being mentioned in this context, no other information is provided about Huppah in the Bible. His inclusion in the list of priestly divisions highlights the importance of the priestly role in ancient Israelite worship and the efforts made by David to organize and regulate the temple service.
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.
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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.
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The pattern
Where Huppah 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).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
1 Chronicles1 verse
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Where this page goes
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