One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Huppim. Every Huppim in the Bible
- verses
- 2
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 7:12
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 7:15
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Benjamin(?)
Description
Who was Huppim?
Huppim is mentioned in 1Ch.7.12 and 1Ch.7.15 as part of the genealogy of the tribe of Manasseh, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. However, there is some ambiguity in the text regarding his exact relationship to the other members of the tribe.
In 1Ch.7.12, Huppim and his brother Shuppim are described as the sons of Ir. However, the verse also mentions that they were the sons of Aher, which could be interpreted as "another" or as a proper name.
In 1Ch.7.15, Huppim is mentioned again, this time in relation to Machir, the son of Manasseh. The verse states that Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, and that their sister's name was Maakah.
The exact relationship between Huppim, Shuppim, Ir, Aher, and Machir is not entirely clear from the text. It is possible that Huppim and Shuppim were descendants of Manasseh through Ir or Aher, and that Machir, as the son of Manasseh, arranged their marriages.
Despite the ambiguity in the genealogical details, the inclusion of Huppim in the record of Manasseh's descendants highlights the importance of family lineage and tribal identity in ancient Israelite society. The genealogies in 1 Chronicles serve to establish the connections between individuals and their ancestral tribes.
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.
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.
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
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