Bible Person
Meaning: workmanship; a wood · Male · 2 cross references
Harsha is a Nethinim family or servant-house name preserved in Ezra and Nehemiah. It belongs to the service households that support restored temple life after exile. First appears in Ezra 2:52.1
AI summary: Harsha matters because the cross references place the name among the temple-servant groups whose labor undergirds the functioning of worship. Such entries preserve the breadth of communal participation in restoration beyond the better-known leaders and priests. Taken together, the material presents Harsha as a servant-house contributing to the daily reality of restored sacred life.1
Central Figure
Harsha
Meaning: workmanship; a wood
Worker or enchanter, one of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:52; Neh.
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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.