house of Micah
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The house of Micah is a private shrine in the biblical Book of Judges where Micah installed idols and a personal priest, later appropriated by the migrating tribe of Dan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| house of Micah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4879550 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: house of Micah Context triple: [Micah (Book of Judges), worshipLocation, house of Micah]
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A.
House of Jacob
The House of Jacob is a biblical term referring to the descendants and collective nation arising from the patriarch Jacob, later known as Israel.
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B.
House of Saul
The House of Saul is the biblical royal dynasty founded by King Saul, Israel’s first monarch, whose lineage briefly ruled before being supplanted by the House of David.
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C.
Manoah
Manoah is a biblical figure from the Book of Judges, known as the father of Samson and the husband of the woman visited by an angel announcing Samson’s birth.
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D.
Mizpah
Mizpah is an ancient biblical site in Gilead known as the place where Jacob and Laban formalized their covenant before parting ways.
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E.
Mizpah
Mizpah was an ancient Israelite town in the central hill country that served as a significant religious, political, and military gathering place in the Hebrew Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: house of Micah Target entity description: The house of Micah is a private shrine in the biblical Book of Judges where Micah installed idols and a personal priest, later appropriated by the migrating tribe of Dan.
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A.
House of Jacob
The House of Jacob is a biblical term referring to the descendants and collective nation arising from the patriarch Jacob, later known as Israel.
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B.
House of Saul
The House of Saul is the biblical royal dynasty founded by King Saul, Israel’s first monarch, whose lineage briefly ruled before being supplanted by the House of David.
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C.
Manoah
Manoah is a biblical figure from the Book of Judges, known as the father of Samson and the husband of the woman visited by an angel announcing Samson’s birth.
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D.
Mizpah
Mizpah is an ancient biblical site in Gilead known as the place where Jacob and Laban formalized their covenant before parting ways.
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E.
Mizpah
Mizpah was an ancient Israelite town in the central hill country that served as a significant religious, political, and military gathering place in the Hebrew Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical location
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private shrine ⓘ |
| appropriatedBy | tribe of Dan ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
idolatry in ancient Israel
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illegitimate worship ⓘ private sanctuary ⓘ |
| associatedWithTribe |
Dan (appropriating tribe)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ephraim (location context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | central sanctuary in Jerusalem (later ideal) ⓘ |
| cultObjectsTakenTo | Dan (city) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn | Book of Judges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalContext |
Hebrew Bible
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulticViolation | use of images contrary to later biblical law ⓘ |
| hasCultObjects |
ephod
ⓘ
teraphim ⓘ |
| hasGenre | historical narrative ⓘ |
| hasIdols |
graven image
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molten image ⓘ |
| hasInterpretiveIssue | debate over historicity and composition of Judges 17–18 ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfPrimarySource | Biblical Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeOutcome |
Micah loses idols and priest
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cult transferred to Dan ⓘ |
| hasOwnerAction |
Micah consecrated one of his sons as priest
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Micah hired a Levite as personal priest ⓘ |
| hasPriest |
Jonathan son of Gershom (traditional identification)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Levite from Bethlehem in Judah ⓘ |
| hasPriestlyLine | Levite priest serving until day of captivity of the land (per text) ⓘ |
| hasProprietor | Micah (biblical figure in Judges 17–18) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReceptionHistory | frequently cited in discussions of Israelite domestic religion ⓘ |
| hasReligiousObjectFunction | household sanctuary ⓘ |
| hasSourceTradition | Deuteronomistic history NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfPriesthood | non-centralized priesthood ⓘ |
| hasWealthSource | silver dedicated by Micah’s mother ⓘ |
| locatedInTextualRegion | hill country of Ephraim ⓘ |
| mentionedInChapter |
Judges 17
ⓘ
Judges 18 ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | example of religious disorder in Israel ⓘ |
| plunderedBy |
spies from the tribe of Dan
ⓘ
warriors of the tribe of Dan ⓘ |
| relatedPassage |
Judges 17:1–13
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Judges 18:1–31 ⓘ |
| religiousStatusInText | condemned implicitly by Deuteronomistic editors ⓘ |
| timeFrameInNarrative | period of the Judges ⓘ |
| worshipCharacterizedAs | syncretistic ⓘ |
| worshipDirectedTo | YHWH (as claimed in narrative) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Input
Subject: house of Micah Description of subject: The house of Micah is a private shrine in the biblical Book of Judges where Micah installed idols and a personal priest, later appropriated by the migrating tribe of Dan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Micah (Book of Judges)