person · also Amashsai
Maasai
מַעֲשַׂי
Maasai, also known as Amashsai, was a priest who served during the time of Nehemiah.
- verses
- 2
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 9:12
- last named
- Nehemiah 11:14
- period
- Exile and Return
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Maasai?
Maasai, also referred to as Amashsai, was a priest mentioned in the genealogies of the priestly families during and Nehemiah (1Ch.9.12; Neh.11.13). In the genealogy recorded in 1 Chronicles, Maasai is listed as a descendant of Adiel, who was a descendant of Immer, one of the priestly clans (1Ch.9.12). This suggests that Maasai belonged to the priestly lineage that served in the temple during the reign of David. In the book of Nehemiah, Amashsai (likely the same person as Maasai) is mentioned as the son of Azarel and a leader among the priests who settled in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile (Neh.11.13). The inclusion of Maasai/Amashsai in both the pre-exilic and post-exilic records highlights the continuity of the priestly families and their service in the temple.
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Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Maasai 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 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (1) and Nehemiah (1).
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
1 Chronicles1 verse
Nehemiah1 verse
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