Deuteronomy 21:19 BSB

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12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְתָ֥פְשׂוּ	ve.Ta.fe.su	and they will seize	H8610 →
ב֖וֹ	vo	<in> <the> him
אָבִ֣יו	'a.Viv	father his	H1 →
וְאִמּ֑וֹ	ve.'i.Mo	and mother his	H517 →
וְהוֹצִ֧יאוּ	ve.ho.Tzi.'u	and they will bring out	H3318 →
אֹת֛וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
זִקְנֵ֥י	zik.Nei	[the] elders of	H2205 →
עִיר֖וֹ	i.Ro	city his	H5892 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and to	H413 →
שַׁ֥עַר	Sha.'ar	[the] gate of	H8179 →
מְקֹמֽוֹ׃	me.ko.Mo	place his	H4725 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Zechariah 13:3
And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 18:20
  But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put…
- Deuteronomy 13:6–11
  If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor…
- Jeremiah 23:34
  As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
Through
Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 23:4
  “Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,
- Deuteronomy 1:15–17
  So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your…
- Deuteronomy 21:2
  your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
- Exodus 18:25–26
  So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
- Deuteronomy 19:17–18

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Jeremiah 38:7Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.Deuteronomy 25:6The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.Proverbs 31:23Her husband is known at the city gate, where he sits among the elders of the land.Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”Deuteronomy 25:7But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”Deuteronomy 21:2your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.Deuteronomy 16:18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.Zechariah 13:3And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,Ruth 4:1Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

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