Bible Person
Meaning: my rest · Male · 1 cross reference
This Shabbethai entry refers to the man named in Ezra 10:15 alongside Jonathan and Meshullam, not to the Levitical figures in Nehemiah 8:7 and 11:16. He belongs to the tense public setting in which the restored community works through covenant reform. First appears in Ezra 10:15.1
AI summary: This Shabbethai matters because his single cross reference places him among those who resist or question the method used to address unlawful marriages. The entry helps show that post-exilic reform was not frictionless but involved real disagreement within the community. Taken together, the material presents this Shabbethai as a dissenting figure in Ezra's reform context.1
Central Figure
Shabbethai
Meaning: my rest
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| Ezra |
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.