Genesis 23:17

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.

• וַיָּ֣קָם׀and it was confirmed

  vaiyakomH6965 →628 times

• שְׂדֵ֣ה[the] field of

  sedehH7704 →334 times

• עֶפְר֗וֹןEphron

  efronH6085 →14 times

• אֲשֶׁר֙which

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• בַּמַּכְפֵּלָ֔ה[was] in <the> Machpelah

  bamakhpelahH4375 →6 times

• אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• לִפְנֵ֣י[was] <to> before

  lifneiH6440 →2123 times

• מַמְרֵ֑אMamre

  mamre'H4471 →10 times

• הַשָּׂדֶה֙the field

  hasadehH7704 →334 times

• וְהַמְּעָרָ֣הand the cave

  vehamearahH4631 →37 times

• אֲשֶׁר־which

  ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

• בּ֔וֹ[was] in <the> it

  bo

• וְכָל־and every

  vekholH3605 →5413 times

• הָעֵץ֙<the> tree

  haetzH6086 →328 times

• אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה[was] in the field

  basadehH7704 →334 times

• אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• בְּכָל־[was] in all

  bekholH3605 →5413 times

• גְּבֻל֖וֹborder its

  gevuloH1366 →240 times

• סָבִֽיב׃round about

  savivH5439 →336 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

  Genesis 25:9

  His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

  it leads to

  • Genesis 50:13

    They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

    Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

  • Genesis 35:29

    Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

  • Genesis 49:29–30

    Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

  • Genesis 21:9–10

    But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

• Through

  Acts 7:16

  Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

  it leads to

  • Joshua 24:32

    And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father,…

  • 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.

  • Exodus 13:19

    Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry…

• Through

  Genesis 50:13

  They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

  it leads to

  • Genesis 23:16–18

    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.