8 others in the registry answer to the name Judah. Every Judah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 12:36
- last named
- Nehemiah 12:36
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Judah?
Judah is mentioned in Neh.12.36 as one of the priests who participated in the dedication ceremony of the wall of Jerusalem. The context of the passage is the celebration and consecration of the newly rebuilt wall during the time of Nehemiah (Neh.12.27-43).
In verse 36, Judah is listed among the priests who were playing musical instruments, specifically the musical instruments of David, the man of God. These priests were part of the procession that walked on top of the wall, following Ezra the scribe (Neh.12.35-36).
The mention of Judah and the other priests playing musical instruments during the dedication ceremony emphasizes the role of worship and praise in the restoration of Jerusalem and the spiritual renewal of the people. The use of David's musical instruments also connects this celebration to the rich history of Israelite worship.
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.
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 Judah 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 Nehemiah (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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.
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