Genesis 42:5

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

• וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙and they came

  vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

• בְּנֵ֣י[the] sons of

  beneiH1121 →4930 times

• יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

  yisraelH3478 →2507 times

• לִשְׁבֹּ֖רto buy grain

  lishborH7666 →21 times

• בְּת֣וֹךְin among

  betokhH8432 →418 times

• הַבָּאִ֑יםthose coming

  habaimH935 →2568 times

• כִּֽי־for

  ki-H3588 →4482 times

• הָיָ֥הit was

  hayahH1961 →3559 times

• הָרָעָ֖בthe famine

  haraavH7458 →101 times

• בְּאֶ֥רֶץin [the] land of

  beeretzH776 →2504 times

• כְּנָֽעַן׃Canaan

  kenaanH3667 →94 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

• Through

  Genesis 26:1

  Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

  it leads to

  • Genesis 12:10

    Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

  • Genesis 25:11

    After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

  • Genesis 21:22–32

    At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

• Through

  Acts 11:28

  One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)

  it leads to

  • Acts 21:10

    After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

  • Acts 18:2

    There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to…

• Through

  Genesis 12:10

  Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

  it leads to

  • Genesis 43:1

    Now the famine was still severe in the land.

• Through

  Acts 7:11

  Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

  it leads to

  • Genesis 41:54–57

    the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.

  • Psalms 105:16

    He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.