Genesis 12:9 BSB — MannaFest

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5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּסַּ֣ע	vai.yi.Sa'	and he journeyed	H5265 →
אַבְרָ֔ם	'av.Ram	Abram	H87 →
הָל֥וֹךְ	ha.Lokh	going	H1980 →
וְנָס֖וֹעַ	ve.na.So.a'	and journeying	H5265 →
הַנֶּֽגְבָּה׃ פ	ha.Neg.bah	the south towards	H5045 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.
leads to
- Genesis 20:1
  Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 16:14
  Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
- Genesis 25:11
  After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
Through
Genesis 13:1
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
leads to
- Joshua 10:40
  So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the…
- Genesis 12:9–20
  And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.
- 2 Samuel 24:7
  They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.
- 1 Samuel 27:10
  who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”
Through
Genesis 13:3
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
leads to
- Genesis 12:6
  Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 13:3From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,Numbers 13:17When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.Genesis 24:62Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.Genesis 13:1So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.Genesis 20:13So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”Hebrews 11:13–14All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.Psalms 105:13they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

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