Bible Person
Meaning: the Lord that judges · Male · 3 cross references
Shephatiah is the ancestral or house-name of a returnee family listed in Ezra and Nehemiah, with a later representative also appearing in Ezra's travel party. He belongs to the family-based fabric of the restored community. First appears in Ezra 2:4.1
AI summary: Shephatiah matters because the cross references place this name in both the first return and later phases of restoration, showing continuity across generations of post-exilic service. The house is part of the lived reality behind rebuilding, pilgrimage, and covenant identity after Babylon. Taken together, the material presents Shephatiah as a returnee family name woven into the ongoing restoration of Judah.1
Central Figure
Shephatiah
Meaning: the Lord that judges
Ezra 2:4.
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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.