Genesis 47:4

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.

• וַיֹּאמְר֣וּand they said

  vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times

• אֶל־to

  ʾel-H413 →5510 times

• פַּרְעֹ֗הPharaoh

  parohH6547 →274 times

• לָג֣וּרto sojourn

  lagurH1481 →97 times

• בָּאָרֶץ֮in the land

  baaretzH776 →2504 times

• בָּאנוּ֒we have come

  banuH935 →2568 times

• כִּי־for

  ki-H3588 →4482 times

• אֵ֣יןthere not

  ʾeinH369 →789 times

• מִרְעֶ֗ה[is] pasture

  mirehH4829 →

• לַצֹּאן֙for the sheep

  latzonH6629 →274 times

• אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• לַעֲבָדֶ֔יךָ[belongs] to servants your

  laavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

• כִּֽי־for

  ki-H3588 →4482 times

• כָבֵ֥ד[was] heavy

  khavedH3515 →41 times

• הָרָעָ֖בthe famine

  haraavH7458 →101 times

• בְּאֶ֣רֶץin [the] land of

  beeretzH776 →2504 times

• כְּנָ֑עַןCanaan

  kenaanH3667 →94 times

• וְעַתָּ֛הand therefore

  veatahH6258 →433 times

• יֵֽשְׁבוּ־let them dwell

  yeshevu-H3427 →1079 times

• נָ֥אplease

  na'H4994 →404 times

• עֲבָדֶ֖יךָservants your

  ʾavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

• בְּאֶ֥רֶץin [the] land of

  beeretzH776 →2504 times

• גֹּֽשֶׁן׃Goshen

  goshenH1657 →15 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 15:13

  Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

  it leads to

  • Acts 7:6–7

    God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

  • Exodus 1:11

    So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

  • Exodus 12:40–41

    Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.

• Through

  Deuteronomy 26:5

  and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty…

  it leads to

  • Genesis 46:27

    And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

  • Deuteronomy 10:22

    Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

  • Genesis 43:1–2

    Now the famine was still severe in the land.

• Through

  Psalms 105:23

  Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

  it leads to

  • Acts 7:11–15

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

  • Acts 13:17

    The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.