Bible Person
Meaning: left hand; shut · Male · 2 cross references
This Ater entry refers to the gatekeeper or porter family listed among the returnees in Ezra and Nehemiah, not to the separate house associated with Hezekiah. It belongs to the practical service structure of restored Jerusalem. First appears in Ezra 2:42.1
AI summary: This Ater matters because the cross references place the name among the temple gatekeeping families who return after exile. Such entries highlight that restoration depended not only on priests and leaders but also on those responsible for order, access, and daily sacred routine. Taken together, the material presents this Ater as a returnee service-house within the functional rebuilding of worship life.1
Central Figure
Ater
Meaning: left hand; shut
Ezra 2:42.
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.