1 Samuel 20:16

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

• וַיִּכְרֹ֥תand he made

  vaiyikhrotH3772 →288 times

• יְהוֹנָתָ֖ןJonathan

  yehonatanH3083 →81 times

• עִם־with

  ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

• בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

  beitH1004 →2046 times

• דָּוִ֑דDavid

  davidH1732 →999 times

• וּבִקֵּ֣שׁand he will require

  uvikeshH1245 →225 times

• יְהוָ֔הYahweh

  yahwehH3068 →6520 times

• מִיַּ֖דfrom [the] hand of

  miyadH3027 →1618 times

• אֹיְבֵ֥י[the] enemies of

  ʾoyeveiH341 →282 times

• דָוִֽד׃David

  davidH1732 →999 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

• Through

  Genesis 15:18

  On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

  it leads to

  • Joshua 1:3–4

    I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.

  • Genesis 12:7

    Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

  • Genesis 24:7

    The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this…

  • Genesis 13:15

    for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

  • Deuteronomy 11:24

    Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.

• Through

  1 Samuel 18:3

  Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 20:42

    And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between…

  • 1 Samuel 20:8–17

    Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me…

  • 2 Samuel 21:7

    Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.