Bible Person
Meaning: my rest · Male · 1 cross reference
This Shabbethai entry refers to the Levite overseer in Nehemiah 11:16, not to the teaching Levite in Nehemiah 8:7 or the dissenting figure in Ezra 10:15. He belongs to the administrative life of restored worship in Jerusalem. First appears in Neh 11:16.1
AI summary: This Shabbethai matters because his single cross reference places him in a role of oversight connected with the house of God in the restored city. The entry helps show that post-exilic worship depended on named leaders handling practical responsibility as well as liturgical service. Taken together, the material presents this Shabbethai as a Levitical overseer in restored Jerusalem.1
Central Figure
Shabbethai
Meaning: my rest
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| 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.