person

Gaham

גַּ֫חַם

Gaham was one of the sons born to Nahor, Abraham's brother, and his concubine Reumah.

verses
1
first named
Genesis 22:24
last named
Genesis 22:24
period
the Patriarchs
tribe
Early Patriarch

Description

Who was Gaham?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Gaham is mentioned briefly in Gen.22.24 as one of the sons born to Nahor, Abraham's brother, and his concubine Reumah. Nahor and Reumah had four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. This information is provided in the context of the genealogy of Abraham's family, highlighting the relatives of the patriarch. The mention of Nahor's children by his concubine demonstrates the practice of polygamy among the patriarchs and their extended family.

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 Gaham10 of 13 entities the graph connects to Gaham, in one group: kinship 10. 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.NahorChild of · 11 versesBethuelSibling of · 9 versesBuzSibling of · 1 verseChesedSibling of · 1 verseHazoSibling of · 1 verseJidlaphSibling of · 1 verseKemuelSibling of · 1 verseMaacahSibling of · 1 event · 1 versePildashSibling of · 1 verseReumahChild of · 1 event · 1 verseGaham

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

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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. Genesis1 verse

    22:24

Onward

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.

Sources

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