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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Anaiah. Every Anaiah in the Bible

    person

    Anaiah

    עֲנָיָה

    Anaiah was one of the men who stood beside Ezra when he read the Book of the Law to the people.

    verses
    1
    first named
    Nehemiah 8:4
    last named
    Nehemiah 8:4
    period
    Exile and Return
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Anaiah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Anaiah was a prominent figure during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. He is mentioned as one of the men who stood beside Ezra on the platform when the scribe read the Book of the Law to the assembled people in Jerusalem. This event took place after the completion of the city wall and marked a significant moment of spiritual renewal for the returned exiles. Anaiah's presence on the platform alongside Ezra suggests that he held a respected position within the community.

    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.

    How the graph connects Anaiah10 of 13 entities the graph connects to Anaiah, in 2 groups: company 1, events 9. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingTook part in · 2 versesCompanyEzra1 event · 22 versesHashbaddanah1 event · 1 verseHashum1 event · 1 verseHilkiah1 event · 1 verseMaaseiah1 event · 1 verseMalchijah1 event · 1 verseMattithiah1 event · 1 verseMeshullam1 event · 1 verseMishael1 event · 1 verseEventsAnaiah

    The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.

    Took part in

    Stands in the same events as

    and 1 more, ordered by how many events they share.

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

    1. Nehemiah1 verse

      8:4

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    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.

    via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingEzraPriest; scribe; led a group of exiles back to Jerusalem.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingHashbaddanahA man who stood with Ezra during the reading of the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingHashumA man who stood with Ezra during the reading of the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingHilkiahA priest who assisted Ezra.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMaaseiahLevite who assisted Ezra in reading the Lawvia Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMalchijahPriest who stood beside Ezra during the reading of the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMattithiahLevite who assisted Ezra in reading the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMeshullamA priest who stood beside Ezra during the reading of the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMishaelA Levite who stood beside Ezra during the reading of the Law.

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    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.

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