Atlas Biblica

    person

    Tabeel

    טָֽבְאֵל

    Tabeel was a Persian official who joined in writing an accusation against the Jews to Artaxerxes.

    verses
    1
    first named
    Ezra 4:7
    last named
    Ezra 4:7
    period
    Exile and Return
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Tabeel?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Tabeel is mentioned in Ezr.4.7 as one of the Persian officials who wrote a letter to King Artaxerxes accusing the Jews of rebuilding Jerusalem. He is listed along with Bishlam and Mithredath. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated. No other details are provided about Tabeel's background or role. As a Persian official in the province Beyond the River, he would have had some authority in the region. His accusation against the Jews aimed to stop their efforts to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple.

    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 Tabeel8 of 8 entities the graph connects to Tabeel, in 2 groups: company 1, events 7. 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.Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemTook part in · 3 versesCompanyJerusalem1 event · 888 versesArtaxerxes1 event · 14 versesRehum1 event · 4 versesRest Of Associates1 event · 4 versesShimshai1 event · 4 versesBishlam1 event · 1 verseMithredath1 event · 1 verseEventsTabeel

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    Stands in the same events as

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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 — one, across 1 book.

    1. Ezra1 verse

      4:7

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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.

    via Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemArtaxerxesPersian king during Ezra and Nehemiah's timevia Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemBishlamSamaritan official who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalemvia Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsvia Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemMithredathA Persian official who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem.via Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemRehumA Persian official who wrote to King Artaxerxesvia Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemRest Of AssociatesRest Of Associates is a group attested across 4 verses, connecting 3 pageable entities.via Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemShimshaiScribe who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem.via Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rest Of Associates, Rehum, and Shimshai’s writing of JerusalemWritingWriting is a concept gathering 75 labelled instances in the text.

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