2 others in the registry answer to the name Meshech. Every Meshech in the Bible

person

Meshech

מֶ֫שֶׁךְ

Meshech, a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah, is mentioned in the Table of Nations.

verses
2
first named
Genesis 10:2
last named
1 Chronicles 1:5
period
the Patriarchs
tribe
Early Patriarch

Description

Who was Meshech?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Meshech was one of the sons of Japheth and a grandson of Noah, mentioned in the Table of Nations (Gen.10.2; 1Ch.1.5). The Table of Nations is a genealogical record of the descendants of Noah's three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their dispersal after the Tower of Babel. Meshech is listed among the sons of Japheth, along with his brothers Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, and Tiras. These sons and their descendants are generally associated with the peoples of the northern and western regions, including Asia Minor and Europe.

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 Meshech10 of 15 entities the graph connects to Meshech, in 3 groups: kinship 3, company 1, events 6. 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.JavanSibling of · 1 event · 31 versesJaphethChild of · 1 event · 11 versesGomerSibling of · 1 event · 5 versesKinshipSons After FloodTook part in · 4 versesCompanySon1 event · 218 versesShem1 event · 17 versesHam1 event · 10 versesCanaan1 event · 9 versesCush1 event · 6 versesEgypt1 event · 4 versesEventsMeshech

The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.

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Stands in the same events as

and 2 more, ordered by how many events they share.

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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

    10:2

  2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

    1:5

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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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