5 others in the registry answer to the name Berechiah. Every Berechiah in the Bible

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Berechiah

בֶּרֶכְיָה

Berechiah was a descendant of King David through Zerubbabel.

verses
1
first named
1 Chronicles 3:20
period
Divided Monarchy
tribe
Judah
role
Man

Description

Who was Berechiah?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Berechiah is mentioned in the genealogy of King David's descendants after the Babylonian exile. He was a son of Zerubbabel, the leader who played a crucial role in rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem (1Ch. 3:20). Zerubbabel was a descendant of David through the line of Solomon and is considered an important figure in the post-exilic period. Berechiah's mention in this genealogy highlights the continuation of David's lineage even after the exile and the importance of tracing the royal line.

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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.

How the graph connects Berechiah9 of 9 entities the graph connects to Berechiah, in one group: kinship 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.ZerubbabelChild of · 27 versesHananiahSibling of · 2 versesAbiudSibling of · 1 verseHasadiahSibling of · 1 verseHashubahSibling of · 1 verseJushab-hesedSibling of · 1 verseMeshullamSibling of · 1 verseOhelSibling of · 1 verseShelomithSibling of · 1 verseBerechiah

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

  1. 1 Chronicles1 verse

    3:20

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