Bible Person
Meaning: that relates or tells · Female · 1 cross reference
Sapphira is the wife of Ananias in Acts 5:1. She belongs to the early church's sobering story of deceit in the midst of visible spiritual power. First appears in Acts 5:1.1
AI summary: Sapphira matters because her single cross reference shows that the holiness of the church could not be treated lightly, even by those participating outwardly in generosity. The entry adds personal weight to the warning that hypocrisy before God is not a trivial fault. Taken together, the material presents Sapphira as a tragic figure in the discipline of the early church.1
Central Figure
Sapphira
Meaning: that relates or tells
Beautiful, the wife of Ananias (q.v.).
Partners
Beautiful, the wife of Ananias (q.v.). She was a partner in his guilt and also in his punishment (Acts 5:1-11). 3
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| Acts |
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.