Ezra 8:1

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.

• וְאֵ֛לֶּהand these

  veelehH428 →746 times

• רָאשֵׁ֥י[are] [the] heads of

  rasheiH7218 →599 times

• אֲבֹתֵיהֶ֖םfathers their

  ʾavoteihemH1 →1212 times

• וְהִתְיַחְשָׂ֑םand recording genealogy they

  vehityachsamH3187 →18 times

• הָעֹלִ֣יםwho came up

  haolimH5927 →890 times

• עִמִּ֗יwith me

  ʾimiH5973 →1050 times

• בְּמַלְכ֛וּתin [the] reign of

  bemalkhutH4438 →91 times

• אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּאArtaxerxes

  ʾartachshast'H783 →15 times

• הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

  hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

• מִבָּבֶֽל׃ סfrom Babylon

  mibavelH894 →262 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

  1 Chronicles 9:1

  So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

  it leads to

  • 1 Chronicles 5:25–26

    They were mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of their families. But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of…

  • Nehemiah 7:64

    These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

  • Nehemiah 7:5

    Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and…

  • Ezra 2:59

    The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

  • Jeremiah 52:14–15

    And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

• Through

  Ezra 7:7

  So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.

  it leads to

  • Ezra 8:1–20

    These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

  • Nehemiah 2:1

    Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad…

  • 1 Chronicles 6:31–48

    These are the men David put in charge of the music in the house of the LORD after the ark rested there.