Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Gahar is a Nethinim family or servant-house name preserved in Ezra and Nehemiah. It belongs to the practical service communities that help sustain restored temple life after exile. First appears in Ezra 2:47.1
AI summary: Gahar matters because the cross references place the name among the Nethinim, widening the story of restoration beyond priests and governors to include the families whose labor made worship function daily. Such entries preserve the breadth of communal participation in rebuilding sacred life. Taken together, the material presents Gahar as a servant-house contributing to the operational reality of post-exilic worship.1
Central Figure
Gahar
Lurking-place, one of the chief of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned to Jerusalem under Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:47).
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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.