- verses
- 11
- first named
- Genesis 25:13
- last named
- Ezekiel 27:21
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Arabia
Description
Who was Kedar?
Kedar is first mentioned in Gen.25.13 and 1Ch.1.29 as one of the twelve sons of Ishmael, the son of Abraham. He is the eponymous ancestor of the Kedarites, a nomadic Arab tribe that inhabited the desert regions of northern Arabia.
The Kedarites were known for their black tents (Sng.1.5) and their large flocks of sheep and goats (Isa.60.7; Ezk.27.21). They were skilled archers and warriors (Isa.21.16-17) and were one of the major Arab tribes in the ancient Near East.
In the Bible, Kedar is often used as a representation of the nomadic tribes of the desert. The psalmist laments living among the tents of Kedar, symbolizing a hostile and foreign environment (Psalm Isa.120.5). The prophet Jeremiah uses Kedar as an example of a distant and powerful nation.
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 19 are drawn. All 19 are listed below.
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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 Kedar 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.
11 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Psalms (1), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (2) and Ezekiel (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 7 books. The name is written 12 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.
- Psalms 120Kedar is named through its tents, among which the speaker says he lives while peace is hated.
- Song of Songs 1Kedar’s tents provide the speaker with a comparison for her darkness and loveliness.
- Isaiah 21Kedar loses its glory within a year, leaving only a few archers and warriors.
- Isaiah 60Kedar's flocks are gathered to the city.
- Jeremiah 2Kedar was summoned to consider whether anything like Israel’s exchange of gods had ever occurred.
- Jeremiah 49Kedar was attacked, its tents and flocks taken, and its people sent fleeing beneath the cry of terror.
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