1 Kings 2:22

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.

• וַיַּעַן֩and he answered

  vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

• הַמֶּ֨לֶךְthe king

  hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

• שְׁלֹמֹ֜הSolomon

  shelomohH8010 →291 times

• וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

  vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

• לְאִמּ֗וֹto mother his

  leimoH517 →220 times

• וְלָמָה֩and <to> why?

  velamahH4100 →752 times

• אַ֨תְּ[are] you

  ʾatH859 →1094 times

• שֹׁאֶ֜לֶתasking

  shoeletH7592 →171 times

• אֶת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• אֲבִישַׁ֤גAbishag

  ʾavishagH49 →5 times

• הַשֻּׁנַמִּית֙the Shunammite

  hashunamitH7767 →8 times

• לַאֲדֹ֣נִיָּ֔הוּfor Adonijah

  laadoniyahuH138 →26 times

• וְשַֽׁאֲלִי־and ask

  veshaali-H7592 →171 times

• לוֹ֙for him

  lo

• אֶת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• הַמְּלוּכָ֔הthe kingship

  hamelukhahH4410 →24 times

• כִּ֛יfor

  kiH3588 →4482 times

• ה֥וּאhe

  hu'H1931 →1879 times

• אָחִ֖י[is] brother my

  ʾachiH251 →630 times

• הַגָּד֣וֹל<the> old

  hagadolH1419 →526 times

• מִמֶּ֑נִּיmore than me

  mimeniH4480 →1188 times

• וְלוֹ֙and for him

  velo

• וּלְאֶבְיָתָ֣רand for Abiathar

  uleevyatarH54 →30 times

• הַכֹּהֵ֔ןthe priest

  hakohenH3548 →750 times

• וּלְיוֹאָ֖בand for Joab

  uleyoavH3097 →144 times

• בֶּן־[the] son of

  ben-H1121 →4930 times

• צְרוּיָֽה׃ פZeruiah

  tzeruyahH6870 →26 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

  James 4:3

  And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

  it leads to

  • 1 John 5:14

    And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

  • 1 John 3:22

    and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

  • James 1:6–7

    But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

  • James 4:1

    What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

  • Proverbs 15:8

    The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

• Through

  Mark 10:38

  “You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

  it leads to

  • Luke 12:50

    But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

• Through

  2 Samuel 12:8

  I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you…

  it leads to

  • Psalms 84:11

    For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

• Through

  1 Kings 1:11

  Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?

  it leads to

  • 2 Samuel 3:4

    his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.