- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 12:20
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Kallai?
Kallai is mentioned in Neh.12.20 as one of the priests who served during the time of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua. The context of the passage is the list of priests and Levites who served in the temple after the Babylonian exile (Neh.12.1-26).
Kallai is listed as the head of the priestly family of Sallai (Neh.12.20). This suggests that he was a prominent priest who led his family in their service at the temple during the post-exilic period.
The mention of Kallai in this list highlights the importance of the priestly families and their organization in the restored community of Israel. It also demonstrates the continuity of priestly service and the significance of the temple in the religious life of the people after the exile.
Apart from this brief mention in Nehemiah, no other information is provided about Kallai's life, specific role, or the duration of his service as a priest.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
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 Kallai 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
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources