Atlas Biblica

    person

    Rachel

    רָחֵלῬαχήλ

    Rachel was the beloved wife of Jacob, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin.

    verses
    45
    first named
    Genesis 29:6
    last named
    Matthew 2:18
    period
    the Patriarchs
    tribe
    Early Patriarch

    Description

    Who was Rachel?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Rachel was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah (Gen.29.16). She became the beloved wife of Israel (or 'Jacob'), who worked for Laban for fourteen years to marry her (Gen.29.18-30). Rachel was initially unable to conceive, while Leah bore several children (Gen.29.31-35). In her distress, Rachel gave her maidservant Bilhah to Jacob, and Bilhah bore Dan and Naphtali (Gen.30.1-8). Eventually, God remembered Rachel, and she gave birth to Joseph (Gen.30.22-24). When Jacob left Laban, Rachel stole her father's household idols (Gen.31.19). She later hid them and deceived her father when he came searching for them (Gen.31.34-35). As Jacob's family journeyed to Ephrath (Bethlehem), Rachel went into labor and gave birth to Benjamin, but she died during childbirth (Gen.35.16-20). Jacob buried her on the way to Ephrath and set up a pillar on her grave (Gen.35.20). Rachel's sons, Joseph and Benjamin, became two of the twelve tribes of Israel (Gen.46.19-22). Her tomb became a landmark (1Sa.10.2) and is mentioned in Jer.31.15, where her weeping is used as a symbol for Israel's mourning during the Babylonian exile. This passage is also quoted in Mat.2.18 in relation to Herod's massacre of the innocents.

    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 Rachel 10 of 12 entities the graph connects to Rachel, in 2 groups: kinship 5, events 5. 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.IsraelPartner of · 16 events · 2,578 versesJosephMother of · 4 events · 197 versesBenjaminMother of · 1 event · 166 versesLabanChild of · 8 events · 46 versesLeahSibling of · 7 events · 32 versesKinshipGiving1 event · 602 versesCanaan1 event · 146 versesChild1 event · 104 versesBethlehem3 events · 53 versesNaphtali1 event · 50 versesEventsRachel

    The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.

    Child of

    Mother of

    Partner of

    Sibling of

    • Leahregistry, no verse

    Stands in the same events as

    and 2 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 Rachel happens All 2 places the claims about Rachel reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Bethlehem, Canaan. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Rachel 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.BethlehemCanaan
    the PatriarchsAll 2 places the claims about Rachel reach

    The pattern

    Where Rachel 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. 45 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS41 VERSESRUTH–1 SAMUEL2 VERSESJEREMIAH1 VERSE14 books and 478 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 45 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS41 VERSESRUTH–1 SAMUEL2 VERSESJEREMIAH1 VERSE14 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Rachel is named in 45 verses, and the name is written 47 times in them — 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. 61 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    One further reference is not a verse of this edition — [Gen.30.1]. A Septuagint address, a bracketed reading, or a compound string the source never resolves. Counted here rather than folded into the figure.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 45, across 5 books. The name is written 47 times in them.

    1. Genesis41 verses

      29:629:929:1029:1129:1229:1629:1729:1829:2029:2529:2829:2929:3029:3130:130:230:630:730:830:1430:1530:2230:2531:431:1431:1931:3231:3331:3433:133:233:735:1635:1935:2035:2435:2546:1946:2246:2548:7

    2. Ruth1 verse

      4:11

    3. 1 Samuel1 verse

      10:2

    4. Jeremiah1 verse

      31:15

    5. Matthew1 verse

      2:18

    One further reference is to an address this build does not carry — a Septuagint verse, or a compound string the source never resolves. Attested where Atlas does not read is not attested nowhere.

    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 Israel and Leah, and 2 moreDinahDaughter of Jacob and Leahvia Israel and Leah, and 2 moreIssacharSon of Jacob and Leah, forefather of tribevia Israel and Leah, and 2 moreJudahIsraelite tribe, kingdom, and provincevia Israel and Leah, and 2 moreLeviSon of Jacob; progenitor of the Levitesvia Israel and Leah, and 2 moreReubenFirstborn son of Jacob and Leahvia Israel and Leah, and 2 moreSimeonSon of Jacob and Leah, one of the twelve tribes.via Israel and Leah, and 2 moreZebulunIsraelite tribe, son of Jacob and Leahvia Israel and Benjamin, and 1 moreAsherSon of Jacob and Zilpah, founder of the tribe of Ashervia Israel and Benjamin, and 1 moreDanFifth son of Jacob, founder of Israelite tribe
    ElsewhereGenealogy of RachelEvery 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