Ecclesiastes 3:18

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.

• אָמַ֤רְתִּֽיI said

  ʾamartiH559 →5305 times

• אֲנִי֙I

  ʾaniH589 →874 times

• בְּלִבִּ֔יin heart my

  belibiH3820 →595 times

• עַל־on

  ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

• דִּבְרַת֙cause of

  divratH1700 →5 times

• בְּנֵ֣י[the] children of

  beneiH1121 →4930 times

• הָאָדָ֔ם<the> humankind

  haadamH120 →551 times

• לְבָרָ֖םto test them

  levaramH1305 →

• הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים<the> God

  haelohimH430 →2601 times

• וְלִרְא֕וֹתand to see

  velirotH7200 →1300 times

• שְׁהֶם־that they

  shehem-H1992 →553 times

• בְּהֵמָ֥ה[are] animal[s]

  behemahH929 →190 times

• הֵ֖מָּהthey

  hemahH1992 →553 times

• לָהֶֽם׃for <the> themselves

  lahem

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

  Hebrews 9:27

  Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  it leads to

  • 2 Corinthians 5:10

    For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:7

    before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:14

    For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

  • Acts 17:31

    For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

  • 2 Samuel 14:14

    For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one…

• Through

  Psalms 73:22

  I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

  it leads to

  • Psalms 92:6

    A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

• Through

  2 Peter 2:12

  These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

  it leads to

  • Jude 1:10

    These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.

• Through

  Psalms 49:12

  But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

  it leads to

  • Ecclesiastes 3:18–21

    I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”