One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Imri. Every Imri in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 9:4
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 9:4
- period
- Exile and Return
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Imri?
Imri is mentioned in 1Ch.9.4 as one of the descendants of Judah who lived in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. He is specifically identified as a descendant of Perez, one of the twin sons of Judah.
The genealogical record in 1Chronicles 9 lists the families and individuals from various tribes of Israel who resettled in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas after returning from the Babylonian captivity. This resettlement took place under the leadership of Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah.
Imri's mention in this context suggests that he was part of the group that returned to Jerusalem and contributed to the rebuilding and restoration of the city and its community. The fact that he is identified as a descendant of Perez indicates that his lineage was traced back to one of the prominent clans within the tribe of Judah.
Apart from this brief mention, no other details are provided about Imri's life, occupation, or specific role in the post-exilic community. However, his inclusion in the genealogical record highlights the importance of family lineage and tribal identity in the reconstitution of Jewish society after the exile.
The name Imri is derived from the Hebrew root meaning "to speak" or "to command." It is possible that this name reflects the individual's role or character, but the text does not provide any further information to confirm this.
Imri's presence in the list of those who resettled in Jerusalem underscores the significance of the return from exile and the efforts made by the Jewish people to reestablish their presence in the land and to rebuild their religious and social institutions.
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
- Baniregistry1 Chronicles 9:4
Father of
- Omriregistry1 Chronicles 9:4
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 Imri 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.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources