2 Samuel 1:8

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.

• וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said

  vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

• לִ֖יto <the> me

  li

• מִי־who?

  mi-H4310 →423 times

• אָ֑תָּה[are] you

  ʾatahH859 →1094 times

• וָאֹמַ֣רand I said

  vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

• אֵלָ֔יוto him

  ʾelavH413 →5510 times

• עֲמָלֵקִ֖י[am] an Amalekite

  ʾamalkiH6003 →

• אָנֹֽכִי׃I

  ʾanokhiH595 →359 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

  1 Samuel 30:1

  On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 29:11

    So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

  • 1 Samuel 15:7

    Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

• Through

  1 Samuel 15:3

  Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and…

  it leads to

  • Numbers 24:20

    Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”

  • Deuteronomy 20:16–18

    However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

  • Isaiah 14:21–22

    Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

• Through

  1 Samuel 27:8

  Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 15:7–8

    Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

  • Joshua 13:2

    This is the land that remains:

  • Joshua 13:13

    but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.