person

Jochebed

יוֹכֶ֫בֶד

Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, married her nephew Amram and became the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

verses
2
first named
Exodus 6:20
last named
Numbers 26:59
period
Egypt and Wilderness
tribe
Levi

Description

Who was Jochebed?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Jochebed, meaning "Yahweh is glory," was the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. She is mentioned in Exo.6.20 and Num.26.59 in the genealogical records of the Levites. Jochebed was the daughter of Levi, born to him in Egypt. She married her nephew Amram, the son of her brother Kohath. This marriage took place before the laws prohibiting such unions were given (Lev.18.12).

Jochebed gave birth to three children who would play significant roles in Israel's history: Miriam, the eldest, followed by Aaron and Moses. According to Exo.2.1-10, when Moses was born, Jochebed hid him for three months to protect him from Pharaoh's edict to kill all male Hebrew babies. When she could no longer hide him, she placed him in a basket among the reeds of the Nile River, where he was found and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. Jochebed's faith and courage in protecting her son led to Moses being raised in the Egyptian court, ultimately preparing him for his future role as Israel's deliverer.

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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 Jochebed 9 of 9 entities the graph connects to Jochebed, in 2 groups: kinship 8, events 1. 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.MosesMother of · 2 events · 786 versesAaronMother of · 2 events · 333 versesLeviChild of · 1 event · 329 versesKohathSibling of · 42 versesMerariSibling of · 38 versesGershonSibling of · 34 versesAmramPartner of · Sibling of · 2 events · 13 versesMiriamMother of · 1 event · 12 versesKinshipEgypt1 event · 649 versesEventsJochebed

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Where this happens

The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

Where the story of Jochebed happens The one place the claims about Jochebed reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Egypt. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Jochebed there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Egypt
Egypt and WildernessThe one place the claims about Jochebed reach

The pattern

Where Jochebed 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 BOOKSEXODUS1 VERSE62 books and 1,036 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 BOOKSEXODUS1 VERSE62 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

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

Jochebed 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.

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

  1. Exodus1 verse

    6:20

  2. Numbers1 verse

    26:59

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