Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Anath is remembered here as the father of Shamgar, one of Israel's judges. He appears through a family connection to a deliverer raised up in a violent and precarious time. First appears in Judg 3:31.1
AI summary: Anath matters because the cross references preserve his name in connection with Shamgar, whose brief but memorable deliverance interrupts the repeated pattern of oppression in Judges. Though Anath himself has no separate action, his inclusion anchors Shamgar within a remembered family identity. Taken together, the material presents Anath as the paternal background to one of Israel's early deliverers.1
Central Figure
Anath
An answer; i.e., to “prayer”, the father of Shamgar, who was one of the judges of Israel (Judg.
An answer; i.e., to “prayer”, the father of Shamgar, who was one of the judges of Israel (Judg. 3:31). 3
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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.