Genesis 21:32

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.

• וַיִּכְרְת֥וּand they made

  vaiyikhretuH3772 →288 times

• בְרִ֖יתa covenant

  veritH1285 →284 times

• בִּבְאֵ֣רat Beer

  biverH884 →68 times

• שָׁ֑בַעSheba

  shava'H884 →68 times

• וַיָּ֣קָםand he arose

  vaiyakomH6965 →628 times

• אֲבִימֶ֗לֶךְAbimelech

  ʾavimelekhH40 →66 times

• וּפִיכֹל֙and Phicol

  ufikholH6369 →3 times

• שַׂר־[the] commander of

  sar-H8269 →421 times

• צְבָא֔וֹarmy his

  tzevaoH6635 →485 times

• וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּand they returned

  vaiyashuvuH7725 →1056 times

• אֶל־to

  ʾel-H413 →5510 times

• אֶ֥רֶץ[the] land of

  ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

• פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃[the] Philistines

  pelishtimH6430 →287 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

  Exodus 13:17

  When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might…

  it leads to

  • Exodus 14:11–12

    They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

  • Nehemiah 9:17

    They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a…

  • Numbers 14:1–4

    Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

  • Luke 14:27–32

    And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

• Through

  Genesis 31:53

  May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

  it leads to

  • Genesis 31:42

    If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen…

• Through

  Judges 13:1

  Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 12:9

    But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of…

  • Romans 2:6

    God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

• Through

  Genesis 26:14

  He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

  it leads to

  • Genesis 37:11

    And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.