One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Nepheg. Every Nepheg in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Exodus 6:21
- last named
- Exodus 6:21
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Nepheg?
Nepheg is mentioned in Exo.6.21 as one of the sons of Izhar, who was a grandson of Levi, the founder of the Levite tribe. The Levites were set apart by God to serve in the tabernacle and, later, in the temple.
The reference to Nepheg occurs in the context of God's instructions to Moses regarding the organization and duties of the Levites. The Levites were divided into three main clans: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Izhar, Nepheg's father, belonged to the clan of Kohath.
The Kohathites were responsible for the care and transportation of the most sacred items in the tabernacle, including the ark of the covenant, the table of showbread, the lampstand, and the altars (Num.3.27-32). As a member of this clan, Nepheg would have been part of a family entrusted with these important duties.
Apart from this genealogical mention, no further information is provided about Nepheg's life or specific role within the Levite community. His inclusion in the record serves to highlight the importance of family lineage in the organization and responsibilities of the Levites.
The Levites' dedication to the service of God and their role in maintaining the sacred objects and rituals of worship were essential to the spiritual life of the Israelite community. Nepheg's mention, along with other Levites, underscores the significance of this tribe in the religious and social structure of ancient 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
- IzharregistryExodus 6:21
Sibling of
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 Nepheg 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 Exodus (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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Where this page goes
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