One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Pelaiah. Every Pelaiah in the Bible
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Nehemiah 8:7
- last named
- Nehemiah 10:10
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Pelaiah?
Pelaiah was a Levite who played a role in the religious reforms of Ezra and Nehemiah. In Neh.8.7, he is listed among the Levites who helped the people understand the Law as Ezra read it. They explained the meaning of the readings, suggesting that Pelaiah had knowledge and teaching skills. Later, in Neh.10.10, Pelaiah is among the Levites who signed the covenant Nehemiah established. This covenant committed the people to follow God's Law and support the temple. Pelaiah's involvement in both teaching and signing the covenant indicates he was an active participant in the spiritual renewal of the post-exilic community.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.
Took part in
- Nehemiah, Zedekiah, Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, Rehum, Meremoth, Obadiah, Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, Magpiash, Hezir, Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, and Rest Of People’s sealing of DocumentNehemiah 10:10
Stands in the same events as
- Law1 event
- Jeshua1 event
- Bani1 event
- Sherebiah1 event
- Hodiah1 event
- Hanan1 event
- Kelita1 event
- Akkub1 event
- Azariah1 event
- Jamin1 event
- Jozabad1 event
- Maaseiah1 event
and 1 more, ordered by how many events they share.
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 1 book.
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