- verses
- 2
- first named
- Genesis 36:43
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:54
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Edom
Description
Who was Magdiel?
Magdiel is mentioned in the lists of Edomite chiefs found in Genesis 36 and 1Chronicles 1. He is identified as one of the chiefs of Edom, a descendant of Esau, the son of Isaac and the twin brother of Israel (or 'Jacob') (Gen.36.43; 1Ch.1.54). The Edomites were the descendants of Esau who settled in the region of Seir, south of the Dead Sea. The lists of Edomite chiefs provide a record of the political and social structure of Edom, highlighting the importance of family lineage and tribal leadership. Magdiel's inclusion in these lists suggests that he held a position of authority and influence within the Edomite community. However, no further details are provided about his personal life, achievements, or the specific period of his leadership. The mention of Magdiel in these genealogical records serves to establish the continuity of Esau's descendants and their role in the history of the region.
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 Magdiel 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 Genesis (1) and 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
Genesis1 verse
1 Chronicles1 verse
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