- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 2:30
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.64°N · 34.95°E
- identified with
- Khirbet el Makhbiyeh (OpenBible)
Khirbet el Makhbiyeh (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Magbish in the text
Magbish is mentioned in Ezra 2:30 in the context of the list of people who returned to Judah from Babylonian exile. The verse states that the sons of Magbish numbered 156. No further details about the location or significance of Magbish are provided in the Bible. It is possible that Magbish was a town or region in Babylonia where some of the exiled Judahites had settled, but this is not specified in the text.
Relations
Direct connections
Every relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends of an edge always agree. Neither end of one reaches this entity.
Not stated
Nothing stands in a stated relation with this entity.
The pattern
Where Magbish 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).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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