10 others in the registry answer to the name Eliezer. Every Eliezer in the Bible

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Eliezer

אֱלִיעֶ֫זֶר

Eliezer was the second son of Moses and Zipporah.

verses
4
first named
Exodus 18:4
last named
1 Chronicles 26:25
period
Egypt and Wilderness
tribe
Levi

Description

Who was Eliezer?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Eliezer was the second son of Moses and Zipporah (Exo.18.4). His name, which means "my God is help," was given by Moses because God had delivered him from Pharaoh's sword (Exo.18.4). Eliezer and his brother Gershom were born during Moses' exile in Midian. In the genealogies of the Levites, Eliezer is listed as a son of Moses (1Ch.23.15,17). He had a son named Rehabiah, who had many descendants (1Ch.23.17; 26.25). The Bible does not provide any further details about Eliezer's life or role.

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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 Eliezer8 of 8 entities the graph connects to Eliezer, in 3 groups: kinship 4, company 1, events 3. 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.MosesChild of · 1 event · 786 versesGershomSibling of · 2 events · 6 versesRehabiahFather of · 3 versesZipporahChild of · 1 event · 3 versesKinshipJethro, Zipporah, Gershom, and Eliezer’s comingTook part in · 2 versesCompanySon1 event · 218 versesJethro1 event · 11 versesSons Of Moses1 event · 2 versesEventsEliezer

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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 — 4, across 2 books. The name is written 5 times in them.

  1. Exodus1 verse

    18:4

  2. 1 Chronicles3 verses

    23:1523:1726:25

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