Atlas Biblica

    20 others in the registry answer to the name Meshullam. Every Meshullam in the Bible

    person

    Meshullam

    מְשֻׁלָּם

    Meshullam, son of Berechiah, helped repair the wall of Jerusalem during Nehemiah's time.

    verses
    3
    first named
    Nehemiah 3:4
    last named
    Nehemiah 6:18
    period
    Exile and Return
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Meshullam?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as one of the individuals who helped repair the wall of Jerusalem during Nehemiah's time (Neh.3.4,30). He worked on two sections of the wall, one near the Fish Gate and another near his own house. Meshullam's involvement in the wall reconstruction demonstrates his commitment to the restoration of Jerusalem and the security of its inhabitants. Later in the book, it is mentioned that Meshullam's son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, one of Nehemiah's main adversaries (Neh.6.18). This family connection may have complicated Meshullam's role in the ongoing political tensions surrounding the rebuilding of Jerusalem, but no further details are provided in the biblical text.

    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.

    How the graph connects Meshullam 10 of 14 entities the graph connects to Meshullam, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 9. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.BerechiahChild of · 3 versesKinshipRebuilding1 event · 37 versesMeremoth1 event · 6 versesFish Gate1 event · 4 versesSheep Gate1 event · 4 versesTower of Hananel1 event · 4 versesEliashib1 event · 3 versesSons Of Hassenaah1 event · 2 versesTower of the Hundred1 event · 2 versesYeshanah Gate1 event · 2 versesEventsMeshullam

    The 10 best-attested of 14 are drawn. All 14 are listed below.

    Child of

    Father of

    Stands in the same events as

    and 1 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Meshullam happens All 3 places the claims about Meshullam reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Fish_Gate, Sheep_Gate, Yeshanah_Gate. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Meshullam there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Fish_GateSheep_Gate
    Exile and ReturnAll 3 places the claims about Meshullam reach

    The pattern

    Where Meshullam 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSNEHEMIAH3 VERSES50 books and 763 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSNEHEMIAH3 VERSES50 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Meshullam is named in 3 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 65 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.

    1. Nehemiah3 verses

      3:43:306:18

    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.

    via daughter of MeshullamJehohananFather-in-law of Tobiah, an opponent of Nehemiahvia BerechiahMeshezabelOne who helped repair the wall of Jerusalem.
    ElsewhereGenealogy of MeshullamEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    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

    What this rests on