One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Abishua. Every Abishua in the Bible
- verses
- 4
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 6:4
- last named
- Ezra 7:5
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Abishua?
Abishua was the son of Phinehas and the grandson of Eleazar, who was the son of Aaron, the first high priest of Israel (1Ch.6.4-5,50). He was part of the lineage of high priests who served in the tabernacle and, later, in the temple.
As a descendant of Aaron, Abishua would have been part of the Levitical priesthood, although no specific details are given about his role or responsibilities. His mention in the genealogies serves to trace the line of high priests from Aaron to the time of the divided monarchy.
Abishua is also mentioned in the genealogy of Ezra, the scribe and priest who led a group of exiles back to Jerusalem during the Persian period (Ezr.7.5). This genealogy demonstrates Ezra's priestly lineage and his connection to the line of high priests stretching back to Aaron, including Abishua.
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.
Child of
Father of
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
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources