2 Samuel 24:21

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.

• וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

  vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

• אֲרַ֔וְנָהAraunah

  ʾaravnahH728 →9 times

• מַדּ֛וּעַwhy?

  madua'H4069 →72 times

• בָּ֥אhas he come

  ba'H935 →2568 times

• אֲדֹנִֽי־lord my

  ʾadoni-H113 →333 times

• הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

  hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

• אֶל־to

  ʾel-H413 →5510 times

• עַבְדּ֑וֹservant his

  avdoH5650 →799 times

• וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

  vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

• דָּוִ֜דDavid

  davidH1732 →999 times

• לִקְנ֧וֹתto buy

  liknotH7069 →84 times

• מֵעִמְּךָ֣from with <the> you

  meimekhaH5973 →1050 times

• אֶת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• הַגֹּ֗רֶןthe threshing floor

  hagorenH1637 →36 times

• לִבְנ֤וֹתto build

  livnotH1129 →376 times

• מִזְבֵּ֙חַ֙an altar

  mizbeachH4196 →401 times

• לַֽיהוָ֔הto Yahweh

  layahwehH3068 →6520 times

• וְתֵעָצַ֥רso it may be restrained

  veteatzarH6113 →

• הַמַּגֵּפָ֖הthe plague

  hamagefahH4046 →25 times

• מֵעַ֥לfrom on

  mealH5921 →5755 times

• הָעָֽם׃the people

  haamH5971 →1873 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

  Psalms 106:30

  But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

  it leads to

  • Numbers 25:6–8

    Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of…

  • Numbers 25:14–15

    The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.

  • Joshua 7:12

    This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be…

  • 1 Kings 18:40–41

    Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.

  • Deuteronomy 13:9–11

    Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

• Through

  Numbers 25:8

  followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,

  it leads to

  • Numbers 16:46–48

    Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the…

  • Psalms 106:29–31

    So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

• Through

  2 Samuel 24:3

  But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord…

  it leads to

  • Deuteronomy 1:11

    May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.