person

Jerah

יֶ֫רַח

Jerah was one of the sons of Joktan, a descendant of Shem, as recorded in the Table of Nations in Genesis and 1 Chronicles.

verses
2
first named
Genesis 10:26
last named
1 Chronicles 1:20
period
the Patriarchs
tribe
Early Patriarch

Description

Who was Jerah?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Jerah is mentioned in the Table of Nations in Genesis and 1 Chronicles as one of the sons of Joktan, a descendant of Shem, the son of Noah. Joktan's descendants are believed to have settled in the southern Arabian Peninsula, suggesting that Jerah and his brothers may have been associated with the ancient peoples of that region. However, no further details are provided about Jerah's life or the specific territory he and his descendants inhabited.

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.

How the graph connects Jerah 10 of 13 entities the graph connects to Jerah, in one group: kinship 10. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.JoktanChild of · 6 versesAbimaelSibling of · 2 versesAlmodadSibling of · 2 versesDiklahSibling of · 2 versesHadoramSibling of · 2 versesHavilahSibling of · 2 versesHazarmavethSibling of · 2 versesJobabSibling of · 2 versesObalSibling of · 2 versesOphirSibling of · 2 versesJerah

The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.

Child of

Sibling of

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.

Not read yet

The pattern

Where Jerah 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.

Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS1 VERSE1 CHRONICLES1 VERSE53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS1 VERSE1 CHRONICLES1 VERSE53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1) and 1 Chronicles (1).

Jerah is named in 2 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

Read it

Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.

  1. Genesis1 verse

    10:26

  2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

    1:20

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.

Sources

What this rests on