person · also Merarite
Merari
מְרָרִי
Merari, the third son of Levi, was the founder of the Merarite clan of Levites.
- verses
- 38
- first named
- Genesis 46:11
- last named
- Ezra 8:19
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Merari?
Merari was the third son of Levi and the founder of the Merarite clan, one of the three main divisions of the Levites (Gen.46.11; Exo.6.16,19). The Merarites were responsible for the transportation and maintenance of the tabernacle's framework, pillars, bases, and related equipment during the Israelites' journey through the wilderness (Num.3.36; 4.29,33,42,45). They were also given specific duties in the tabernacle service (Num.7.8; 10.17). In the time of David, the Merarites were assigned various roles in the temple service, including gatekeepers, singers, and assistants to the priests (1Ch.6.44,47; 9.14; 15.6,17; 23.6,21; 24.26,27; 26.10,19). The Merarites were allotted cities in the territories of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun (Jos.21.7,34,40; 1Ch.6.63,77). Members of the Merarite clan, such as Asaiah and Shemaiah, were involved in the reforms and restoration of temple worship during the reigns of Hezekiah and Josiah (2Ch.29.12; 34.12).
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 27 are drawn. All 27 are listed below.
Ancestor of
Associated with
Child of
Father of
- Jaaziahregistry, no verse
- MahliregistryExodus 6:19Numbers 3:201 Chronicles 6:19 +1
- Mushiregistry1 Chronicles 6:47Exodus 6:19Numbers 3:20 +2
Parent of
Sibling of
Stands in the same events as
- Gershon3 events
- Reuben2 events
- Gad2 events
- Zebulun2 events
- Kohath2 events
- Ramoth2 events
- Mahanaim2 events
- Jahaz2 events
- Bezer2 events
- Dimnah2 events
- David1 event
- Clan1 event
and 10 more, ordered by how many events they share.
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 Merari 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.
38 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1), Exodus (2), Numbers (12), Joshua (3), 1 Chronicles (17), 2 Chronicles (2) and Ezra (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 38, across 7 books. The name is written 40 times in them.
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