2 Samuel 13:1

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.

• וַיְהִ֣יand it was

  vayhiH1961 →3559 times

• אַֽחֲרֵי־after

  ʾacharei-H310 →715 times

• כֵ֗ןthus

  khenH3651 →771 times

• וּלְאַבְשָׁל֧וֹםand [belonged] to Absalom

  uleavshalomH53 →110 times

• בֶּן־[the] son of

  ben-H1121 →4930 times

• דָּוִ֛דDavid

  davidH1732 →999 times

• אָח֥וֹתa sister

  ʾachotH269 →114 times

• יָפָ֖הa beautiful

  yafahH3303 →42 times

• וּשְׁמָ֣הּand name her

  ushemahH8034 →864 times

• תָּמָ֑ר[was] Tamar

  tamarH8559 →25 times

• וַיֶּאֱהָבֶ֖הָand he loved her

  vaiyeehavehaH157 →211 times

• אַמְנ֥וֹןAmnon

  ʾamnonH550 →28 times

• בֶּן־[the] son of

  ben-H1121 →4930 times

• דָּוִֽד׃David

  davidH1732 →999 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

  2 Samuel 14:27

  Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.

  it leads to

  • 2 Samuel 18:18

    During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the…

• Through

  1 Chronicles 3:2

  the third was Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;

  it leads to

  • 2 Samuel 19:4–10

    But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

  • 1 Chronicles 2:23

    But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

  • 2 Samuel 14:23

    So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Samuel 18:14

    But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive…

  • 2 Samuel 15:8

    For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”

• Through

  2 Samuel 13:15

  Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”

  it leads to

  • Ezekiel 23:17

    Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

• Through

  1 Chronicles 3:9

  These were all the sons of David, besides the sons by his concubines. And Tamar was their sister.

  it leads to

  • 2 Samuel 13:1–20

    After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.