Genesis 37:30 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּ֥שָׁב	vai.Ya.shov	and he returned	H7725 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אֶחָ֖יו	'e.Chav	brothers his	H251 →
וַיֹּאמַ֑ר	vai.yo.Mar	and he said	H559 →
הַיֶּ֣לֶד	hai.Ye.led	the boy	H3206 →
אֵינֶ֔נּוּ	'ei.Ne.nu	not [is] he	H369 →
וַאֲנִ֖י	va.'a.Ni	and I	H589 →
אָ֥נָה	'A.nah	where?	H575 →
אֲנִי־	'a.ni-	[am] I	H589 →
בָֽא׃	Va'	going	H935 →

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
Jeremiah 31:15
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
leads to
- Matthew 2:16–18
  When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years…
- Psalms 77:2
  In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
- Jeremiah 40:1
  This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem…
- Genesis 35:19
  So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
- Jeremiah 10:20
  My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
Through
Genesis 37:20
“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
leads to
- Titus 3:3
  For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- Proverbs 27:4
  Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
Through
Genesis 42:13
But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
leads to
- Genesis 44:20
  And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and…

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 42:13But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”Genesis 42:32We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’Jeremiah 31:15This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”Genesis 37:20“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”Genesis 42:35–36As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.Genesis 5:24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.Matthew 2:18“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

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