7 others in the registry answer to the name Seraiah. Every Seraiah in the Bible

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Seraiah

שְׂרָיָהוּ

Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, was one of the officers who served under Gedaliah, the governor appointed by the Babylonians after the fall of Jerusalem.

verses
2
first named
2 Kings 25:23
last named
Jeremiah 40:8
period
Divided Monarchy
tribe
Judah(?)

Description

Who was Seraiah?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Seraiah, mentioned in 2Ki.25.23 and Jer.40.8, was an officer who served under Gedaliah, the governor appointed by the Babylonians over Judah after the fall of Jerusalem. He was the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, indicating his origin from Netophah, a town in Judah. After the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and exiled many of its inhabitants, they appointed Gedaliah as the governor to oversee the remaining people in the land. Seraiah, along with other officers and their men, came to Gedaliah at Mizpah and pledged their allegiance to him. However, Gedaliah was later assassinated by Ishmael, a member of the royal family, leading to further unrest and instability in the region.

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 Seraiah 7 of 7 entities the graph connects to Seraiah, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 6. 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.TanhumethChild of · 2 versesKinshipMizpah2 events · 50 versesGedaliah2 events · 26 versesIshmael2 events · 21 versesJohanan2 events · 15 versesJezaniah2 events · 4 versesJonathan1 event · 1 verseEventsSeraiah

Child of

Stands in the same events as

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 Seraiah happens The one place the claims about Seraiah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Mizpah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Seraiah 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.Mizpah
Divided MonarchyThe one place the claims about Seraiah reach

The pattern

Where Seraiah 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. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS2 KINGS1 VERSEJEREMIAH1 VERSE11 books and 407 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS2 KINGS1 VERSEJEREMIAH1 VERSE11 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (1) and Jeremiah (1).

Seraiah is named in 2 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. 64 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 — 2, across 2 books.

  1. 2 Kings1 verse

    25:23

  2. Jeremiah1 verse

    40:8

Onward

Where this page goes

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Where they appear

Chapter by chapter

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Sources

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