person

Gether

גֶּ֫תֶר

Gether was a son of Aram and a grandson of Shem, mentioned in the genealogies of the Table of Nations.

verses
2
first named
Genesis 10:23
last named
1 Chronicles 1:17
period
the Patriarchs
tribe
Early Patriarch

Description

Who was Gether?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Gether is mentioned in Gen.10.23 and 1Ch.1.17 as one of the sons of Aram, who was a son of Shem. Shem was one of the three sons of Noah, and his descendants are listed in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10), which provides a genealogical record of the repopulation of the Earth after the Great Flood. Gether is listed alongside his brothers Uz, Hul, and Mash (or Meshech in 1 Chronicles). The Table of Nations is organized according to the descendants of Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The descendants of Shem, known as Semites, are believed to have settled in the Middle East, and Aram's descendants, including Gether, are traditionally associated with the regions of Syria and Mesopotamia. However, no further details are provided about Gether's life, his specific descendants, or the territory they inhabited. The mention of Gether in the Table of Nations serves to emphasize the common ancestry of the various nations and people groups that emerged after the Flood.

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 Gether4 of 4 entities the graph connects to Gether, in one group: kinship 4. 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.AramChild of · 4 versesHulSibling of · 2 versesMashSibling of · 2 versesUzSibling of · 2 versesGether

Child of

Sibling of

  • Hulregistry, no verse
  • Mashregistry, no verse
  • Uzregistry, no verse

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 — 2, across 2 books.

  1. Genesis1 verse

    10:23

  2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

    1:17

Onward

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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.

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