person

Agur

אָגוּר

Agur, son of Jakeh, is credited as the author of Proverbs 30.

verses
1
first named
Proverbs 30:1
last named
Proverbs 30:18
period
United Monarchy
role
Man

Description

Who was Agur?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Agur is identified as the son of Jakeh and the author of the sayings recorded in Proverbs 30. He is described as the one "who spoke to Ithiel and Ucal." The text presents a collection of Agur's wise sayings and observations, which cover various topics such as the nature of God, the value of wisdom, and the dangers of foolishness and pride.

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

Stands in the same events as

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.

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Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.

  1. Proverbs1 verse

    30:1

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.

Where they appear

Chapter by chapter

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

Sources

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