- verses
- 1
- first named
- Genesis 22:24
- last named
- Genesis 22:24
- period
- the Patriarchs
- role
- Woman
Description
Who was Reumah?
Reumah is mentioned in Gen.22.24 as the concubine of Nahor, Abraham's brother. Nahor was the grandfather of Rebekah, who would later become the wife of Isaac, Abraham's son (Gen.24.15, 24). Reumah bore four sons to Nahor: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. This information is provided in the context of listing Nahor's descendants, which include both the children of his wife, Milcah, and those of his concubine, Reumah. In ancient Near Eastern culture, it was not uncommon for men to have both wives and concubines. Concubines held a lower social status than wives but were still considered a part of the family. The mention of Reumah and her sons in the genealogy of Nahor shows the breadth of his family and the various branches that would have descended from him. It also provides background information on the extended family of Abraham and the relatives of Rebekah, who would become an important figure in the history 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.
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 Reumah 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 Genesis (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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.
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