- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 11:37
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Warrior
Description
Who was Naarai?
Naarai, the son of Ezbai, is mentioned in 1Ch.11.37 as one of the mighty warriors who fought alongside King David. This passage lists several of David's most valiant and loyal soldiers, known for their exceptional skills in battle and their unwavering support of the king.
The mighty warriors, also known as David's "mighty men" or "heroes," were an elite group of soldiers who played a crucial role in establishing and maintaining David's kingdom. They were known for their bravery, strength, and military prowess, often accomplishing remarkable feats in battle.
Naarai's inclusion in this list indicates that he was recognized for his exceptional abilities as a warrior and his dedication to serving King David. Being named among such a distinguished group of soldiers suggests that Naarai had proven himself in battle and earned the respect and trust of his fellow warriors and the king himself.
However, beyond being listed as one of David's mighty warriors and the son of Ezbai, no further details are provided about Naarai's specific accomplishments, background, or the role he played in David's military campaigns. His mention in this context serves primarily to highlight the strength and loyalty of the men who supported David during his reign as king of Israel.
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.
Child of
- Ezbairegistry, no verse
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 Naarai 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 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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