3 others in the registry answer to the name Kish. Every Kish in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 23:21
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 24:29
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Kish?
Kish is mentioned in 1Ch.23.21-22 and 1Ch.24.29 as a Levite from the clan of Merari. He is listed among the descendants of Mahli, one of the sons of Merari.
In the context of organizing the Levitical duties during the reign of King David, the descendants of Kish were assigned specific roles in the service of the tabernacle (1Ch.23.21-22). This highlights the importance of the Levitical clans and their responsibilities in maintaining the worship and religious practices of ancient Israel.
The genealogy of the Levites in 1Chronicles 24 again mentions Kish as a descendant of Mahli (1Ch.24.29). This reaffirms his lineage and place within the Levitical clan structure.
Apart from these genealogical records and the mention of his descendants' duties, no further information is provided about Kish's life or specific role within the Levitical community. His inclusion in the genealogies emphasizes the continuity and organization of the Levitical clans in their service to God.
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 Kish 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.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book. The name is written 4 times in them.
1 Chronicles3 verses
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.
Sources