- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 2:48
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 2:48
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Sheber?
Sheber, mentioned in 1Ch.2.48, was one of the sons of Caleb, a prominent figure in the tribe of Judah, born to his concubine Maacah. Sheber is listed among Caleb's descendants in the genealogy of Judah, which traces the lineage of the tribe from its early ancestors. The text does not provide any further details about Sheber's life, his role within the tribe, or any specific achievements. His mention in the genealogy serves to highlight the importance of family lineage and the recording of descendants in the biblical narrative. The inclusion of Sheber, along with his brothers, in the list of Caleb's sons born to his concubine Maacah, also sheds light on the social and familial practices of the time, where it was not uncommon for men to have multiple wives and concubines.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 20 are drawn. All 20 are listed below.
Child of
- Calebregistry, no verse
- Maacahregistry1 Chronicles 2:48
Sibling of
- Achsahregistry, no verse
- Ardonregistry, no verse
- Ephahregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Gazezregistry, no verse
- Geshanregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Haranregistry, no verse
- Hurregistry, no verse
- Jesherregistry, no verse
- Jothamregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Mesharegistry, no verse
- Mozaregistry, no verse
- Peletregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Regemregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Shaaph — first named at 1 Chronicles 2:47registry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Shaaph — first named at 1 Chronicles 2:49registry, no verse
- Shevaregistry, no verse
- Shobabregistry, no verse
- Tirhanahregistry, no verse
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 Sheber 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 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
1 Chronicles1 verse
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.
Sources