Atlas Biblica

    person

    Peleg

    פֶּ֫לֶגΦάλεκ

    Peleg, a descendant of Shem and ancestor of Abraham, during whose time the earth was divided.

    verses
    8
    first named
    Genesis 10:25
    last named
    Luke 3:35
    period
    the Patriarchs
    tribe
    Early Patriarch

    Description

    Who was Peleg?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Peleg was a descendant of Shem, the son of Noah, and an ancestor of Abraham, according to the genealogies in Gen.10.25, 11:16-19, and 1Ch.1.19,25. He was the son of Eber and the brother of Joktan. Peleg lived 239 years and became the father of Reu at the age of 30. The name Peleg means "division," and Gen.10.25 states that in his days the earth was divided. This event is not described in detail, but it may refer to the division of languages and peoples described in the Tower of Babel story (Gen.11.1-9). Peleg is also mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Luk.3.35, emphasizing his role in the ancestral line of the Messiah.

    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 Peleg 3 of 3 entities the graph connects to Peleg, in one group: kinship 3. 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.EberChild of · Descendant of · 3 events · 12 versesJoktanSibling of · 2 events · 6 versesReuAncestor of · Father of · 1 event · 6 versesPeleg

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    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 Peleg 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. 8 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS5 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSESLUKE1 VERSE28 books and 606 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 8 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS5 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSESLUKE1 VERSE28 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Peleg is named in 8 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. 63 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 — 8, across 3 books.

    1. Genesis5 verses

      10:2511:1611:1711:1811:19

    2. 1 Chronicles2 verses

      1:191:25

    3. Luke1 verse

      3:35

    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 ReuSerugSon of Reu; father of Nahor, ancestor of Abrahamvia EberShelahSon of Arpachshad and ancestor of Abrahamvia JoktanAbimaelDescendant of Shem, son of Joktanvia JoktanAlmodadSon of Joktan, descendant of Shemvia JoktanDiklahDescendant of Shem through Joktanvia JoktanHadoramSon of Joktan, a descendant of Shem.via JoktanHavilahA son of Joktan, descendant of Shem.via JoktanHazarmavethA son of Joktan, descendant of Shem.via JoktanJerahA son of Joktan, descendant of Shem.
    ElsewhereGenealogy of PelegEvery 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.

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