Atlas Biblica

    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Tola. Every Tola in the Bible

    person

    Tola

    תּוֹלָע

    Tola, the son of Puah, was a judge of Israel who ruled for 23 years after Abimelech's death.

    verses
    1
    first named
    Judges 10:1
    last named
    Judges 10:3
    period
    before Israel's Monarchy
    role
    Judge

    Description

    Who was Tola?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Tola was a judge of Israel who succeeded Abimelech and ruled for 23 years (Jdg.10.1-2). He was the son of Puah and the grandson of Dodo from the tribe of Issachar. Tola lived and was buried in Shamir, located in the hill country of Ephraim. His name means "crimson worm" or "scarlet stuff." Despite being one of the judges, the biblical account provides no details about Tola's deeds or accomplishments during his leadership. The brief mention of his reign serves as a transition between the tumultuous rule of Abimelech and the subsequent judge, Jair.

    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 Tola5 of 5 entities the graph connects to Tola, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 4. 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.PuahChild of · 1 verseKinshipIsrael2 events · 2,578 versesAbimelech1 event · 37 versesJair1 event · 2 versesShamir2 events · 2 versesEventsTola

    Child of

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Tola happensThe one place the claims about Tola reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Shamir. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Tola there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Shamir
    before Israel's MonarchyThe one place the claims about Tola reach

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.

    1. Judges1 verse

      10:1

    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.

    via PuahDodoSon of Puah, a judge of Israel

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on