Bible Person
Meaning: a strong army; a gang of robbers · Male · 3 cross references
Azgad is the ancestral or house-name behind a returnee family listed in Ezra and Nehemiah. It marks one of the recognized groups participating in the post-exilic return and rebuilding effort. First appears in Ezra 2:12.1
AI summary: Azgad matters because the cross references present the house as a substantial returnee group active across more than one restoration list. The repetition gives the family continuity in the memory of return, travel, and resettlement. Though the figure is not narrative in the usual sense, the house plays a real part in the reconstitution of the people. Taken together, the material presents Azgad as a returnee house participating in the rebuilding of Judah after exile.1
Central Figure
Azgad
Meaning: a strong army; a gang of robbers
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.