- verses
- 20
- first named
- Exodus 6:23
- last named
- Ezra 8:2
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Ithamar?
Ithamar was the fourth and youngest son of Aaron, the first high priest of Israel (Exo.6.23). He served as a priest alongside his brothers Nadab, Abihu, and Eleazar (Num.3.2). After the deaths of Nadab and Abihu for offering unauthorized fire before the Lord (Lev.10.1-2), Ithamar and Eleazar were warned not to mourn for them openly (Lev.10.6).
Ithamar assisted his father Aaron and his brother Eleazar in their priestly duties (Exo.28.1; Num.3.4). He was responsible for overseeing the Gershonites and Merarites, two of the Levite clans, in their tabernacle duties (Num.4.28,33). During the dedication of the tabernacle, Ithamar assisted Moses in receiving the offerings from the tribal leaders (Num.7.8).
Ithamar's descendants continued to serve as priests (1Ch.24.1-6). They were divided into divisions for their appointed duties, just as Aaron's other descendants were. One of Ithamar's notable descendants was Eli, who served as high priest and judge in Israel (1Sa.14.3; 1Ki.2.27).
In Ezr.8.2, a descendant of Ithamar named Daniel is mentioned among the priests who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian exile. This highlights the continuity of Ithamar's lineage in the priesthood.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.
Ancestor of
Child of
- AaronregistryExodus 6:23Numbers 3:4Numbers 26:60 +8
- ElishebaregistryExodus 6:23
Father of
- Unnamed#1registry, no verse
Sibling of
Stands in the same events as
- Aaron5 events
- Eleazar4 events
- Abihu3 events
- Nadab3 events
- Moses2 events
- Levi2 events
- Priest2 events
- Work2 events
- Israel1 event
- Silver1 event
- Kohath1 event
- Gershon1 event
and 1 more, ordered by how many events they share.
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 Ithamar 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.
20 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (3), Leviticus (3), Numbers (6), 1 Chronicles (7) and Ezra (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 20, across 5 books. The name is written 21 times in them.
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.
- Exodus 28Ithamar was brought with Aaron’s sons to serve as a priest and was given the garments appointed for Aaron’s sons.
- Exodus 38Ithamar directed the Levites as they recorded the inventory.
- Numbers 3Ithamar served as priest during the lifetime of his father Aaron.
- Numbers 4Ithamar directed the Gershonite and Merarite clans in their transport duties.
- 1 Chronicles 24Ithamar served as a priest, and his descendants supplied eight family heads for the division.
Sources