Exodus 22:17

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.

• אִם־if

  ʾim-H518 →1069 times

• מָאֵ֧ןabsolutely <refuse>

  maenH3985 →41 times

• יְמָאֵ֛ןhe will refuse

  yemaenH3985 →41 times

• אָבִ֖יהָfather her

  ʾavihaH1 →1212 times

• לְתִתָּ֣הּto give her

  letitahH5414 →2011 times

• ל֑וֹto <the> him

  lo

• כֶּ֣סֶףsilver

  kesefH3701 →403 times

• יִשְׁקֹ֔לhe will weigh out

  yishkolH8254 →

• כְּמֹ֖הַרaccording to [the] bride-price of

  kemoharH4119 →

• הַבְּתוּלֹֽת׃ ס<the> virgins

  habetulotH1330 →

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

  Genesis 34:12

  Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”

  it leads to

  • Exodus 22:16–17

    If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

• Through

  Deuteronomy 22:29

  then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as…

  it leads to

  • Deuteronomy 22:19

    They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall…

  • Deuteronomy 22:24

    you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he…

• Through

  1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 14:24

    Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken…

  • Genesis 34:12

    Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”

  • 1 Samuel 18:17

    Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I…

• Through

  Genesis 23:16

  Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

  it leads to

  • Jeremiah 32:9

    So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

  • Zechariah 11:12

    Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.