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- Son of Isaac, a messianic prophecy.The messianic line was narrowed from Abraham's sons to specifically through Isaac, not Ishmael.
- Son of God, a messianic prophecy.The Messiah would be God's Son in a unique sense.
Featured studies
2 resultsVerses
2,698 results- VerseGenesis 17:25and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
- VerseMatthew 22:45So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be David’s son?”
- Verse2 Samuel 23:36Igal son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
- VerseMatthew 21:37Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
- VerseJoshua 16:4So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.
People
45 results- PersonBalaam son of BeorThe Mesopotamian diviner hired by Balak to curse Israel, rebuked by his own donkey, and constrained to bless four times — the Star out of Jacob among his oracles; attested…
- PersonIshmaelAbraham's son by Hagar — blessed and made a great nation, but not the covenant heir; Paul's figure of the flesh (Gal 4:21–31).
- PersonEsauIsaac's elder son who despised his birthright (Heb 12:16); father of Edom, Israel's perennial neighbor and adversary.
- PersonJudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line to Christ (Matt 1:3).
- PersonIsaacThe son of promise and of laughter — bound on Moriah, the quiet inheritor of the covenant.
Places
5 results- PlaceNainA Galilean town named in Scripture only here, where Jesus met the funeral procession of a widow's only son. Moved with compassion, he stopped the bier and raised the young man…
- PlaceShunemHome of the great woman who built the prophet's chamber on the wall; her son, given and raised, is one of Elisha's greatest signs.
- PlaceCana of GalileeThe Galilean village where Jesus turned water into wine (the first sign) and, from there, healed the official's son at Capernaum (John 2:1-11; 4:46-54).
- PlaceRiblahNebuchadnezzar's headquarters on the Orontes where Zedekiah was sentenced and watched his sons killed before his own eyes were put out.
- PlaceAraratThe mountains of the old kingdom of Urartu where the ark came to rest as the waters went down, where Noah built his altar and saw the bow, and where a later king’s sons fled…
Words (Strong's)
- WordH1121 בֵּן · bên (Hebrew)a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like…. The Hebrew word stands…
- WordG5207 υἱός · huiós (Greek)a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship. The Greek word stands 377 times in the original text.
- WordH7892 שִׁיר · shîyr (Hebrew)a song. The Hebrew word stands 59 times in the original text.
- WordH2158 זָמִיר · zâmîyr (Hebrew)a song to be accompanied with instrumental music. The Hebrew word stands 6 times in the original text.
- WordH1123 בֵּן · bên (Hebrew){a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense}. A Hebrew word of the lexicon floor, with its parsing and its occurrences on the word page.
Concepts
3 results- ConceptCovenant SignEvery covenant is given something you can see: a rainbow, a circumcision, a sabbath, a cup: so the oath can be remembered.
- ConceptGematriaHebrew and Greek letters double as numbers, so every word carries a value: a feature of the alphabets the text itself uses.
- ConceptThe Fourteen GenerationsMatthew arranges the genealogy of Jesus into three sets of fourteen and says so out loud: a structure, not an accident.
Themes
17 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeWisdomWisdom in Scripture (Hebrew *hokmah*, H2451) is skilled living before God, not accumulated information. Its first appearances are not proverbs but craftsmen: the wise-hearted…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
Topics
19 results- TopicArsonA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicGarrisonA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicImprisonmentA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicJasonA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicMasonA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Prophecies
8 results- ProphecySon of IsaacThe messianic line was narrowed from Abraham's sons to specifically through Isaac, not Ishmael.
- ProphecySon of GodThe Messiah would be God's Son in a unique sense.
- ProphecySon of JacobBalaam prophesied that a Star and Sceptre would arise from Jacob (Israel), further narrowing the messianic lineage.
- ProphecySon Raised to Eternal ThroneThe Davidic Covenant promised an eternal throne to David's seed. Paul argues in Acts 13 that this eternal kingship required resurrection—a dead king cannot reign forever. The…
- ProphecyThe Beloved SonThe Messiah would be God's uniquely beloved Son.
Apologetics
2 results- ApologeticsBelshazzar as Co-Regent of BabylonCuneiform recoveries from the 19th century forward show Belshazzar - named king in Daniel 5 - was Nabonidus's eldest son and co-regent in Babylon, reversing a standard…
- ApologeticsJehoiachin Ration Tablets (Babylonian Captivity)Cuneiform ration lists excavated from a vaulted storehouse beside Babylon's Ishtar Gate name "Ya'u-kinu, king of the land of Yahudu" and five royal sons among the palace…
Voices
8 results- VoiceC.S. LewisClive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963) was an Oxford- and Cambridge-trained literary scholar, novelist, lay theologian, and broadcast apologist. Raised in…
- VoiceRichard SibbesRichard Sibbes was a wheelwright's son who went up to Cambridge, and he never really left that world: he was a lecturer at Holy Trinity, master of St Catharine's Hall, and…
- VoiceDon RichardsonDon Richardson (June 23, 1935 – December 23, 2018) was a Canadian Christian missionary, author, and pioneering missiologist. With his wife Carol and infant son, he went in 1962…
- VoiceThomas AquinasThomas was born about 1225 at Roccasecca, between Rome and Naples, the youngest son of the count of Aquino. His family sent him at five to the great Benedictine abbey of Monte…
- VoiceErasmus of RotterdamDesiderius Erasmus was born at Rotterdam, most likely on October 28, 1466 — he was vague about the year, and had reason to be. He was the illegitimate son of a priest and a…