person
Magpiash
מַגְפִּיעָשׁ
Magpiash was among those who sealed the covenant during the time of Nehemiah.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 10:20
- last named
- Nehemiah 10:20
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Magpiash?
Magpiash is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as one of the individuals who sealed the covenant during the time of Nehemiah (Neh.10.20). After the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon and the completion of the wall of Jerusalem, the people gathered to renew their commitment to God and His laws (Neh.8-10). As part of this renewal, a covenant document was prepared and signed by the leaders, Levites, and priests (Neh.10.1-27). Magpiash is listed among the leaders who sealed this covenant, pledging to follow God's commandments and to support the temple service (Neh.10.28-39). The sealing of the covenant was a significant act of dedication and commitment to God, demonstrating the people's desire to live according to His will in the post-exilic period. No further details are provided about Magpiash's personal life or his specific role in the community. His inclusion in the list of those who sealed the covenant highlights the importance of collective responsibility and unity in the spiritual life of the Jewish community.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
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.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Magpiash 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.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, 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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