Genesis 37:12

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.

• וַיֵּלְכ֖וּand they went

  vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

• אֶחָ֑יוbrothers his

  ʾechavH251 →630 times

• לִרְע֛וֹתto pasture

  lirotH7462 →177 times

• אֶׄתׄ־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• צֹ֥אן[the] flock of

  tzonH6629 →274 times

• אֲבִיהֶ֖םfather their

  ʾavihemH1 →1212 times

• בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃at Shechem

  bishkhemH7927 →63 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 37:1

  Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.

  it leads to

  • Genesis 17:8

    And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

  • Genesis 23:4

    “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

  • Hebrews 11:9–16

    By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

• Through

  Genesis 33:18

  After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

  it leads to

  • Joshua 24:1

    Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

  • 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.

  • Judges 9:1

    Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

  • John 4:5

    So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

  • Genesis 25:20

    and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.