Bible Person
Meaning: medicine or refreshment of the Lord · Male · 1 cross reference
This Rephaiah entry refers to the district ruler in Nehemiah 3:9, not to the Issacharite, Simeonite, or Davidic figures of the same name elsewhere. He belongs to the civic leadership involved in rebuilding Jerusalem's wall. First appears in Neh 3:9.1
AI summary: This Rephaiah matters because his single cross reference places him in direct responsibility for repairing a section of Jerusalem's defenses. The entry helps show that restoration after exile depended on named local leaders taking practical ownership of the work. Taken together, the material presents this Rephaiah as a district ruler engaged in rebuilding Jerusalem.1
Central Figure
Rephaiah
Meaning: medicine or refreshment of the Lord
| Book | Cross-References |
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| Neh |
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.