Ecclesiastes 8:13

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.

• וְטוֹב֙and good

  vetovH2896 →538 times

• לֹֽא־not

  lo'-H3808 →5168 times

• יִהְיֶ֣הit will belong

  yihyehH1961 →3559 times

• לָֽרָשָׁ֔עto the wicked

  larasha'H7563 →263 times

• וְלֹֽא־and not

  velo'-H3808 →5168 times

• יַאֲרִ֥יךְhe will prolong

  yaarikhH748 →34 times

• יָמִ֖יםdays

  yamimH3117 →2304 times

• כַּצֵּ֑לlike <the> shadow

  katzelH6738 →49 times

• אֲשֶׁ֛רthat

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• אֵינֶ֥נּוּnot he

  ʾeinenuH369 →789 times

• יָרֵ֖אhe has feared

  yare'H3373 →64 times

• מִלִּפְנֵ֥יfrom to before

  milifneiH6440 →2123 times

• אֱלֹהִֽים׃God

  ʾelohimH430 →2601 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

  Job 14:2

  Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

  it leads to

  • Isaiah 40:6–8

    A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

  • 1 Peter 1:24

    For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

  • Job 8:9

    For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Psalms 103:15–16

    As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

  • 1 Chronicles 29:15

    For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

• Through

  Isaiah 57:21

  “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

  it leads to

  • Isaiah 48:22

    “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

• Through

  Malachi 3:18

  So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

  it leads to

  • Matthew 25:46

    And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

  • Genesis 18:25

    Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the…