Bible Person
Meaning: son of contempt; made of iron · Male · 2 cross references
This Barzillai entry refers to the priestly family that took the name of a Barzillai daughter through marriage, not to Barzillai the Gileadite who helped David. It belongs to the complicated identity questions of the post-exilic priesthood. First appears in Ezra 2:61.1
AI summary: This Barzillai matters because the cross references place the name in a case where priestly descent and public family naming create uncertainty about legitimacy. The entry highlights how seriously restored Judah treated genealogical credibility in matters of sacred office. Taken together, the material presents this Barzillai as a priestly house-name illustrating the importance of verified lineage in post-exilic worship.1
Central Figure
Barzillai
Meaning: son of contempt; made of iron
A priest who married a daughter of the preceding (Ezra 2:61).
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.