person · also Zechariah

Zecher

זֶ֫כֶר

Zecher (or Zechariah), a son of Abiel (or 'Jeiel'), the father (and founder) of Gibeon.

verses
2
first named
1 Chronicles 8:31
period
United Monarchy
tribe
Benjamin
role
Man

Description

Who was Zecher?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Zecher, also known as Zechariah, was a son of Abiel (or 'Jeiel'), the father (and founder) of Gibeon. He is mentioned in the genealogies of Benjamin in 1 Chronicles. Zecher had several brothers, including Ner, the grandfather of King Saul. The genealogy suggests that Zecher was an ancestor of some of the Benjamites who lived in Gibeon, a city allotted to the tribe of Benjamin.

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 Zecher10 of 11 entities the graph connects to Zecher, in one group: kinship 10. 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.NerSibling of · 14 versesKishSibling of · 13 versesAbielChild of · 6 versesMiklothSibling of · 3 versesAbdonSibling of · 2 versesAhioSibling of · 2 versesBaalSibling of · 2 versesGedorSibling of · 2 versesMaacahChild of · 2 versesNadabSibling of · 2 versesZecher

The 10 best-attested of 11 are drawn. All 11 are listed below.

Child of

Sibling of

  • Abdonregistry, no verse
  • Ahioregistry, no verse
  • Baalregistry, no verse
  • Gedorregistry, no verse
  • Kishregistry, no verse
  • Miklothregistry, no verse
  • Nadabregistry, no verse
  • Nerregistry, no verse
  • Zurregistry, no verse

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.

  1. 1 Chronicles2 verses

    8:319:37

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

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