25 others in the registry answer to the name Shemaiah. Every Shemaiah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 8:16
- last named
- Ezra 8:16
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Shemaiah?
Shemaiah was a Levite who was invited by Ezra to join the group of exiles returning to Jerusalem from Babylon. According to Ezr.8.16, Ezra sent for leaders and men of understanding, including Shemaiah, to assist in the journey and the re-establishment of the Jewish community in Jerusalem. Shemaiah was among the Levites, along with Eliezer, Arib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were specifically summoned by Ezra for this purpose. The inclusion of Levites like Shemaiah was crucial for ensuring the proper functioning of the temple and the spiritual life of the community upon their return to Jerusalem.
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 Shemaiah 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 Ezra (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