Genesis 36:4 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתֵּ֧לֶד	va.Te.led	and she bore	H3205 →
עָדָ֛ה	'a.Dah	Adah	H5711 →
לְעֵשָׂ֖ו	le.'e.Sav	to Esau	H6215 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אֱלִיפָ֑ז	'e.li.Faz	Eliphaz	H464 →
וּבָ֣שְׂמַ֔ת	u.Va.se.Mat	and Basemath	H1315 →
יָלְדָ֖ה	Yal.dah	she bore	H3205 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
רְעוּאֵֽל׃	re.'u.'El	Reuel	H7467 →

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
Numbers 10:29
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us,…
leads to
- Exodus 3:1
  Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 12:7
  Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
- Exodus 2:18
  When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
- Judges 4:11
  Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
- Judges 1:16
  Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live…
Through
Job 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together…
leads to
- Romans 12:15
  Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
- Job 42:11
  All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And…
- Genesis 25:2
  and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

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.

1 Chronicles 1:35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.Exodus 2:18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.Numbers 10:29Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”Genesis 36:15These are the chiefs among the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,Genesis 36:17These are the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

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