Exodus 37:20 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה	u.va.me.no.Rah	and [were] on the lampstand	H4501 →
אַרְבָּעָ֣ה	'ar.ba.'Ah	four	H702 →
גְבִעִ֑ים	ge.vi.'Im	cups	H1375 →
מְשֻׁ֨קָּדִ֔ים	me.Shu.ka.Dim	shaped like almond blossoms	H8246 →
כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ	kaf.to.Rei.ha	bulbs its	H3730 →
וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃	u.fe.ra.Chei.ha	and blossoms its	H6525 →

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
Numbers 17:8
The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.
leads to
- Ezekiel 17:24
  Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make…
- John 15:1–6
  “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
Through
Jeremiah 1:11
And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
leads to
- Amos 7:8
  “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
- Amos 8:2
  “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
- Zechariah 5:2
  “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
- Jeremiah 24:3
  “Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”
- Zechariah 4:2
  “What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.
Through
Ecclesiastes 12:5
when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners…
leads to
- Job 17:13
  If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

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 1:11And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.Numbers 17:8The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.Exodus 25:33There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.Ecclesiastes 12:5when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.2 Chronicles 4:21the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;

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