One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Sherebiah. Every Sherebiah in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Nehemiah 10:12
- last named
- Nehemiah 12:8
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Sherebiah?
Sherebiah was a Levite who played a significant role during the time of Nehemiah. In Neh.10.12, he is listed among the Levites who sealed the covenant, pledging to follow the Law of God. This covenant was a solemn commitment made by the people to obey God's commandments and maintain their identity as a holy nation.
In Neh.12.8, Sherebiah is mentioned as one of the Levites who led the thanksgiving psalms during the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. He, along with other Levites, was involved in the joyous celebration and worship that accompanied this significant event in the restoration of Jerusalem.
Furthermore, in Neh.12.24, Sherebiah is named as one of the heads of the Levites, along with Hashabiah, who was responsible for leading the songs of thanksgiving and praise. This leadership role indicates Sherebiah's importance in the Levitical order and his contribution to the worship practices of the community.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
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.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Sherebiah 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.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, 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.
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