1 Kings 11:3

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.

• וַיְהִי־and it belonged

  vayhi-H1961 →3559 times

• ל֣וֹto him

  lo

• נָשִׁ֗יםwives

  nashimH802 →781 times

• שָׂרוֹת֙noble ladies

  sarotH8282 →

• שְׁבַ֣עseven

  sheva'H7651 →394 times

• מֵא֔וֹתhundred<s>

  meotH3967 →581 times

• וּפִֽלַגְשִׁ֖יםand concubines

  ufilagshimH6370 →

• שְׁלֹ֣שׁthree

  sheloshH7969 →432 times

• מֵא֑וֹתhundred<s>

  meotH3967 →581 times

• וַיַּטּ֥וּand they turned aside

  vaiyatuH5186 →214 times

• נָשָׁ֖יוwives his

  nashavH802 →781 times

• אֶת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• לִבּֽוֹ׃heart his

  liboH3820 →595 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

  Ecclesiastes 7:28

  While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.

  it leads to

  • Psalms 12:1

    Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.

  • Job 33:23

    Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

  • 1 Kings 11:1–3

    King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

  • Isaiah 26:9

    My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

• Through

  2 Chronicles 11:21

  Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

  it leads to

  • Deuteronomy 17:17

    He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.

  • Judges 8:30

    Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.

  • 2 Samuel 5:13

    After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

  • 2 Samuel 3:2–5

    And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;