One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Achzib. Every Achzib in the Bible
place · also Chezib · Cozeba
Achzib
אַכְזִיב
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Genesis 38:5
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 4:22
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.64°N · 34.95°E
Tel el Beida (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Achzib in the text
Achzib, also known as Chezib or Cozeba, was a town located in the Shephelah (foothills) region of Judah (Joshua 15:44). It is first mentioned in Genesis 38:5 as the place where Judah's son Shelah was born. The town is later listed in the genealogies of Judah (1Ch.4.22).
In Micah 1:14, Achzib is mentioned in a prophetic oracle of judgment against Judah, where it is described as a deception to the kings of Israel, possibly implying that the town would fail to provide the expected support or loyalty. The exact location of Achzib is debated, but it is generally identified with the ruins of Tel el-Beida, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Beit Gubrin (Eleutheropolis) in the Shephelah.
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 pattern
Where Achzib 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.
4 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1), Joshua (1), 1 Chronicles (1) and Micah (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 4 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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