person · also Palluite
Pallu
פַּלּוּא
Pallu was a son of Reuben and the ancestor of the Palluite clan within the tribe of Reuben.
- verses
- 5
- first named
- Genesis 46:9
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 5:3
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Reuben
Description
Who was Pallu?
Pallu was one of the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel (or 'Jacob') (Gen.46.9; Exo.6.14; 1Ch.5.3). He is mentioned in the genealogies of Reuben, which list the descendants of Reuben and their clans. Pallu's descendants formed the Palluite clan within the tribe of Reuben (Num.26.5, 8). The Palluites were one of the clans that made up the tribe of Reuben during the wilderness wanderings and the settlement of the Promised Land. The mention of Pallu and his descendants in these genealogies highlights the importance of family lineage and tribal identity in the organization and history of the Israelite community.
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.
Associated with
Child of
Descendant of
Father of
- EliabregistryNumbers 26:8
Sibling of
Stands in the same events as
- Sons Of Reuben1 event
- Carmi1 event
- Hanoch1 event
- Hezron1 event
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 Pallu 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.
5 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1), Exodus (1), Numbers (2) and 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 4 books. The name is written 6 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.
Sources