One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Shaphan. Every Shaphan in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezekiel 8:11
- last named
- Ezekiel 8:11
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Shaphan?
Shaphan, mentioned in Ezk.8.11, was the father of Jaazaniah, one of the seventy elders of Israel who were involved in idolatrous worship practices within the temple. In a vision given to the prophet Ezekiel, he sees these elders burning incense and engaging in abominable practices in a secret chamber of the temple. Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, is specifically named among these elders. This event highlights the spiritual decay and the prevalence of idolatry among the leaders of Israel, even within the sacred precincts of the temple. The mention of Shaphan as the father of Jaazaniah suggests that he may have been a well-known figure, possibly due to his own position or the significance of his family. However, the text does not provide any further details about Shaphan himself or his role in the events described in the vision.
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.
Father of
- JaazaniahregistryEzekiel 8:11
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 Shaphan 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 Ezekiel (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
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources