1 Samuel 20:23

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.

• וְהַ֨דָּבָ֔רand the matter

  vehadavarH1697 →1440 times

• אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• דִּבַּ֖רְנוּwe have spoken

  dibarnuH1696 →1141 times

• אֲנִ֣יI

  ʾaniH589 →874 times

• וָאָ֑תָּהand you

  vaatahH859 →1094 times

• הִנֵּ֧הhere!

  hinehH2009 →843 times

• יְהוָ֛הYahweh

  yahwehH3068 →6520 times

• בֵּינִ֥י[will be] between me

  beiniH996 →407 times

• וּבֵינְךָ֖and between you

  uveinekhaH996 →407 times

• עַד־until

  ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

• עוֹלָֽם׃ סperpetuity

  olamH5769 →438 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 31:50

  If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”

  it leads to

  • Jeremiah 42:5

    Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

  • Jeremiah 29:23

    For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He…

  • Micah 1:2

    Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

  • Judges 11:10

    And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”

• Through

  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…

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 1:17

    “Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”

  • 1 Samuel 23:18

    So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.

• Through

  Genesis 16:5

  Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me…

  it leads to

  • Genesis 31:53

    May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

  • Exodus 5:21

    “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill…