7 others in the registry answer to the name Adaiah. Every Adaiah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 11:5
- last named
- Nehemiah 11:5
- period
- Exile and Return
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Adaiah?
Adaiah is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as an ancestor of Maaseiah, a leader who lived in Jerusalem during the post-exilic period (Neh.11.5). Maaseiah was among the descendants of Perez, the son of Judah, who settled in Jerusalem.
The context of Adaiah's mention is the listing of the leaders and prominent figures who resided in Jerusalem after the rebuilding of the city wall. This resettlement was part of Nehemiah's efforts to repopulate and strengthen Jerusalem following the return from Babylonian exile.
Adaiah's inclusion in the genealogy of Maaseiah suggests that he was a significant figure in the family lineage, although no specific details are provided about his life or role. The mention of his name serves to establish the ancestry of Maaseiah and to highlight the importance of family lineage in the records of the post-exilic community.
As an ancestor of a prominent leader in Jerusalem, Adaiah's legacy would have been remembered and celebrated by his descendants. However, beyond this brief mention, no further information is given about his personal life or contributions to the community.
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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
- JoiaribregistryNehemiah 11:5
Father of
- HazaiahregistryNehemiah 11:5
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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.
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