One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Kelita. Every Kelita in the Bible
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Nehemiah 8:7
- last named
- Nehemiah 10:10
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Kelita?
Kelita is mentioned in Neh.8.7 and Neh.10.10 as a Levite who played a significant role in the spiritual renewal of the people during the time of Nehemiah.
In Neh.8.7, Kelita is listed among the Levites who helped Ezra teach the Law to the people. Along with the other Levites, he explained the meaning of the Law to the people, making it clear and giving insight so that they could understand what was being read (Neh.8.7-8).
Later, in Neh.10.10, Kelita is among the Levites who sealed the covenant made by the people to follow the Law of God. This covenant included commitments to avoid intermarriage with the pagan peoples, to observe the Sabbath, to support the temple service, and to obey the commandments of God (Neh.10.28-39).
Kelita's involvement in teaching the Law and sealing the covenant highlights his role as a Levite in the spiritual instruction and leadership of the people during the post-exilic period.
Apart from these two mentions in Nehemiah, no other information is provided about Kelita's background or specific responsibilities.
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 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
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 Kelita 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.
2 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, 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.
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