1 Chronicles 21:3 BSB

Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יוֹאָ֗ב	yo.'Av	Joab	H3097 →
יוֹסֵף֩	yo.Sef	may he add	H3254 →
יְהוָ֨ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
עַמּ֤וֹ׀	a.Mo	people his	H5971 →
כָּהֵם֙	ka.Hem	like them
מֵאָ֣ה	me.'Ah	a hundred	H3967 →
פְעָמִ֔ים	fe.'a.Mim	times	H6471 →
הֲלֹא֙	ha.Lo'	¿ not	H3808 →
אֲדֹנִ֣י	'a.do.Ni	O lord my	H113 →
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
כֻּלָּ֥ם	ku.Lam	[do] all of them	H3605 →
לַאדֹנִ֖י	la.do.Ni	[belong] to lord my	H113 →
לַעֲבָדִ֑ים	la.'a.va.Dim	to subjects	H5650 →
לָ֣מָּה	La.mah	<to> why?	H4100 →
יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ	ye.va.Kesh	does he seek	H1245 →
זֹאת֙	zoT	this	H2063 →
אֲדֹנִ֔י	'a.do.Ni	lord my	H113 →
לָ֛מָּה	La.mah	<to> why?	H4100 →
יִהְיֶ֥ה	yih.Yeh	will it become	H1961 →
לְאַשְׁמָ֖ה	le.'ash.Mah	<into> guilt	H819 →
לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	le.Yis.ra.'El	for Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 1:11
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
leads to
- Genesis 22:17
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 115:14
  May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
- Numbers 6:27
  So they shall put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
- Genesis 26:4
  I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
Through
Psalms 115:14
May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 1:11
  May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
- Acts 2:39
  This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- Acts 3:25
  And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
- Jeremiah 33:22
  As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Deuteronomy 1:11May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.1 Chronicles 19:13Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sight.”Psalms 115:14May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.Isaiah 26:15You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.Isaiah 48:19Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”1 Samuel 2:24No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.Exodus 32:21“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”Numbers 32:9–10For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.Genesis 20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”1 Kings 14:16So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”Proverbs 14:28A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.1 Samuel 17:8And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.2 Kings 12:7So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”Joshua 22:15They went to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said to them,

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