Atlas Biblica

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

    person

    Deborah

    דְּבוֹרָה

    Deborah, a prophetess and judge, led Israel to victory against the Canaanites alongside Barak.

    verses
    9
    first named
    Judges 4:4
    last named
    Judges 5:15
    period
    before Israel's Monarchy
    role
    Judge

    Description

    Who was Deborah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Deborah was a prophetess and the only female judge mentioned in the Bible. She lived during a time when the Israelites were oppressed by Jabin, the king of Canaan (Jdg.4.4). Deborah held court under a palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites came to her for judgment (Jdg.4.5).

    Deborah summoned Barak, an Israelite warrior, and delivered a message from God instructing him to lead an army against Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army (Jdg.4.6-7). Barak agreed to go only if Deborah accompanied him, to which she consented but prophesied that the honor of the victory would go to a woman (Jdg.4.8-9).

    Deborah and Barak led the Israelite army to Mount Tabor, where they defeated Sisera's forces (Jdg.4.10-16). Sisera fled and sought refuge in the tent of Jael, who killed him by driving a tent peg through his temple (Jdg.4.17-22).

    After the victory, Deborah and Barak sang a song of praise, recounting the events of the battle and celebrating God's deliverance (Jdg.5.1-31). Deborah's leadership as a prophetess and judge brought 40 years of peace to the land of Israel (Jdg.5.31).

    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 Deborah9 of 9 entities the graph connects to Deborah, in 3 groups: kinship 1, company 2, events 6. 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.LappidothSpouse of · 1 verseKinshipDeborah and Barak’s singingTook part in · 3 versesDeborah’s goingTook part in · 2 versesCompanyIsrael2 events · 2,578 versesJudgment1 event · 152 versesBethel1 event · 69 versesRamah1 event · 18 versesBarak6 events · 14 versesKedesh2 events · 10 versesEventsDeborah

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    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Deborah happensAll 3 places the claims about Deborah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Kedesh, Bethel, Ramah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Deborah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.KedeshBethelRamah
    before Israel's MonarchyAll 3 places the claims about Deborah reach

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 9, across 1 book.

    1. Judges9 verses

      4:44:54:94:104:145:15:75:125:15

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    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.

    via Deborah and Barak’s singing and Deborah’s goingBarakAn Israelite commander who defeated Canaanite forces with Deborah.via Deborah and Barak’s singingSingingSinging is a concept gathering 31 labelled instances in the text.via Deborah’s goingGoingGoing is a concept gathering 321 labelled instances in the text.via Deborah’s goingKedeshA Canaanite city, later a Levitical city of refuge in Naphtali

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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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