Genesis 38:8

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.

• וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

  vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

• יְהוּדָה֙Judah

  yehudahH3063 →819 times

• לְאוֹנָ֔ןto Onan

  leonanH209 →8 times

• בֹּ֛אgo

  bo'H935 →2568 times

• אֶל־into

  ʾel-H413 →5510 times

• אֵ֥שֶׁת[the] wife of

  ʾeshetH802 →781 times

• אָחִ֖יךָbrother your

  ʾachikhaH251 →630 times

• וְיַבֵּ֣םand act as a husband's brother for

  veyabemH2992 →

• אֹתָ֑הּ<obj.> her

  ʾotahH853 →10935 times

• וְהָקֵ֥םand raise up

  vehakemH6965 →628 times

• זֶ֖רַעoffspring

  zera'H2233 →229 times

• לְאָחִֽיךָ׃for brother your

  leachikhaH251 →630 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

  Ruth 1:11

  But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

  it leads to

  • Deuteronomy 25:5

    When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty…

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Genesis 38:11

    Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went…

• Through

  Leviticus 18:16

  You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.

  it leads to

  • Leviticus 20:21

    If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.

  • Mark 12:19

    “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.

  • Matthew 22:24

    “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.

  • Mark 6:17

    For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.