Bible Person
Meaning: left hand; shut · Male · 2 cross references
This Ater entry refers to the ancestral or house-name associated with Hezekiah in the returnee lists, not to the gatekeeper family of the same name. It belongs to the broader family-based repopulation of Judah after exile. First appears in Ezra 2:16.1
AI summary: This Ater matters because the cross references place the house within the core return lists that make restoration social and concrete. Even without a narrative scene, the family contributes to the repopulating of the land and the re-forming of community identity after Babylon. Taken together, the material presents this Ater as a returnee house woven into the demographic recovery of Judah.1
Central Figure
Ater
Meaning: left hand; shut
Ezra 2:16.
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.