place · also Addon
Addan
אַדָּן
Addan (Addon), a place from which some Jewish exiles returned to Judah.
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Ezra 2:59
- last named
- Nehemiah 7:61
- feature
- settlement
Description
Addan in the text
Addan, also known as Addon, is mentioned in Ezra 2:59 and Nehemiah 7:61 as one of the places from which certain Jewish families returned to Judah following the Babylonian exile. These families, including the descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, were unable to prove their Israelite ancestry or priestly lineage and were therefore excluded from the priesthood. The exact location of Addan is unknown, but it was likely a town or region in Babylonia where these exiled families had settled. The mention of Addan in the lists of returning exiles highlights the challenges faced by some Jews in establishing their identity and place within the post-exilic community.
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 Addan 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.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (1) and Nehemiah (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
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