Genesis 16:15 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתֵּ֧לֶד	va.Te.led	and she bore	H3205 →
הָגָ֛ר	ha.Gar	Hagar	H1904 →
לְאַבְרָ֖ם	le.'av.Ram	to Abram	H87 →
בֵּ֑ן	Ben	a son	H1121 →
וַיִּקְרָ֨א	vai.yik.Ra'	and he called	H7121 →
אַבְרָ֧ם	'av.Ram	Abram	H87 →
שֶׁם־	shem-	[the] name of	H8034 →
בְּנ֛וֹ	be.No	son his	H1121 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	whom	H834 →
יָלְדָ֥ה	Yal.dah	she had borne	H3205 →
הָגָ֖ר	ha.Gar	Hagar	H1904 →
יִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃	yish.ma.'El	Ishmael	H3458 →

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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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 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make…
leads to
- Genesis 21:13
  But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 21:18
  Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
- Genesis 25:12–18
  This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
- Genesis 16:10–12
  Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
Through
Genesis 28:9
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
leads to
- Genesis 36:3
  and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
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.
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.
- 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.
Through
Genesis 25:12
This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
leads to
- Psalms 83:6
  the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

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.

Galatians 4:22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.Genesis 21:9But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,Genesis 25:12This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.Galatians 4:22–23For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.Genesis 28:9Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.Genesis 25:9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.Genesis 21:9–21But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,Genesis 17:18And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”Genesis 37:27Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.Genesis 16:11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.1 Chronicles 1:28The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael.Genesis 17:25–26and his son Ishmael was thirteen;Judges 8:31His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

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