Bible Person
Meaning: dust; lead · Male · 1 cross reference
This Epher entry refers to a head of families in the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan, not to the Judahite figure of the same name. He belongs to the remembered leadership of the eastern tribes. First appears in 1 Chr 5:24.1
AI summary: This Epher matters because his single cross reference places him among the heads of households through whom eastern Manasseh's identity is preserved. The entry helps show that tribal memory east of the Jordan was carried by named leaders with regional importance. Taken together, the material presents this Epher as a chief within eastern Manasseh's preserved structure.1
Central Figure
Epher
Meaning: dust; lead
The head of one of the families of trans-Jordanic Manasseh who were carried captive by Tiglath-pileser (1 Chr.
The head of one of the families of trans-Jordanic Manasseh who were carried captive by Tiglath-pileser (1 Chr. 5:24). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.