One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Mahalalel. Every Mahalalel in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 11:4
- last named
- Nehemiah 11:4
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Mahalalel?
Mahalalel is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as one of the descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile (Neh.11.4). He is listed among the people who resettled in Jerusalem as part of Nehemiah's efforts to repopulate the city (Neh.11.1-36). Mahalalel belonged to the tribe of Judah, specifically the clan of Perez, which was one of the prominent families in Judah. The resettlement of Jerusalem was a significant step in the restoration of the Jewish community and the reestablishment of their presence in the holy city after the exile. No further details are provided about Mahalalel's personal life or his specific contributions to the community in the post-exilic period. His inclusion in the list of residents highlights the importance of family lineage and tribal identity in the social and religious life of the Jewish people.
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.
Father of
- ShephatiahregistryNehemiah 11:4
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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