One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Sharezer. Every Sharezer in the Bible
person
Sharezer
שַׁרְאֶ֫צֶר
Sharezer was part of a delegation sent to the house of God to inquire about the necessity of fasting in the fifth month.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Zechariah 7:2
- last named
- Zechariah 7:2
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Sharezer?
Sharezer, mentioned in Zec.7.2, was part of a delegation sent by the people of Bethel to the house of God to seek guidance from the priests and prophets. The delegation, which also included Regem-melech and his men, came to inquire about whether they should continue the practice of fasting and mourning in the fifth month, as they had been doing for many years. This fasting was likely associated with the commemoration of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. The prophet Zechariah responded to their inquiry by emphasizing the importance of true repentance, justice, and compassion rather than merely observing ritual fasts. The text does not provide any further details about Sharezer's background or his role within the delegation. However, his inclusion in this account highlights the significance of seeking divine guidance and the need for genuine devotion and obedience to God's commands.
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.
Stands in the same events as
- LORD1 event
- Regem-melech1 event
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 Sharezer 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 Zechariah (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.
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