Genesis 21:3 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקְרָ֨א	vai.yik.Ra'	and he called	H7121 →
אַבְרָהָ֜ם	'av.ra.Ham	Abraham	H85 →
אֶֽת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שֶׁם־	shem-	[the] name of	H8034 →
בְּנ֧וֹ	be.No	son his	H1121 →
הַנּֽוֹלַד־	ha.no.lad-	who had been born	H3205 →
ל֛וֹ	lo	to <the> him
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	whom	H834 →
יָלְדָה־	Yal.dah-	she had borne	H3205 →
לּ֥וֹ	lo	to <the> him
שָׂרָ֖ה	sa.Rah	Sarah	H8283 →
יִצְחָֽק׃	yitz.Chak	Isaac	H3327 →

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
Romans 9:7
Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
leads to
- Hebrews 11:18
  even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 21:12
  But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
Through
Genesis 21:6
Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
leads to
- Psalms 126:2
  Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- Isaiah 54:1
  “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her…
- Genesis 17:17
  Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- Luke 1:58
  Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
- Luke 1:46–55
  Then Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,
Through
Genesis 17:19
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after…
leads to
- Genesis 21:2–3
  So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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 17:19But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.Romans 9:7Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”Genesis 21:6Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”Luke 3:34the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,Genesis 21:12But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.Joshua 24:3But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,Hebrews 11:18even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”Matthew 1:2Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.Acts 7:8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.Genesis 22:2“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

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