Atlas Biblica

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    Zorah

    צׇרְעָה

    Zorah was a town in the Shephelah region, originally allotted to Judah and later to Dan, and was the hometown of Samson .

    Where the story of Zorah happens Where the gazetteer locates Zorah, framed to them: Zorah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Zorah
    Where the gazetteer locates Zorah
    verses
    10
    first named
    Joshua 15:33
    last named
    Nehemiah 11:29
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    31.77°N · 34.99°E
    settlement31.77°N · 34.99°E

    Tel Tzora (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Zorah in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Zorah was a town located in the Shephelah, the foothills between the coastal plain and the hill country of Judah. It was originally allotted to the tribe of Judah (Jos.15.33) but later became part of the territory of Dan (Jos.19.41). Zorah was the hometown of Samson, the judge of Israel (Jdg.13.2). The Spirit of the Lord began to stir Samson in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol (Jdg.13.25). Men from Zorah and Eshtaol were involved in the Danite migration (Jdg.18.2,8,11). Samson was buried between Zorah and Eshtaol (Jdg.16.31). During the reign of Rehoboam, Zorah was fortified as a defensive city (2Ch.11.10). In the time of Nehemiah, the people of Zorah helped rebuild Jerusalem (Neh.11.29). Zorah is identified with the modern-day village of Sar'a, about 15 miles west of 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.

    Stands in the same events as

    and 10 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Zorah 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 10 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA–JUDGES8 VERSESNEHEMIAH1 VERSE50 books and 763 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 10 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA–JUDGES8 VERSESNEHEMIAH1 VERSE50 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Zorah is named in 10 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 62 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 10, across 4 books.

    1. Joshua2 verses

      15:3319:41

    2. Judges6 verses

      13:213:2516:3118:218:818:11

    3. 2 Chronicles1 verse

      11:10

    4. Nehemiah1 verse

      11:29

    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.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on