Isaiah 1:16 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
רַחֲצוּ֙	ra.cha.Tzu	wash	H7364 →
הִזַּכּ֔וּ	hi.za.Ku	cleanse yourselves	H2135 →
הָסִ֛ירוּ	ha.Si.ru	remove	H5493 →
רֹ֥עַ	Ro.a'	[the] wickedness of	H7455 →
מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם	ma.'a.lei.Khem	deeds your	H4611 →
מִנֶּ֣גֶד	mi.Ne.ged	from before	H5048 →
עֵינָ֑י	'ei.Nai	eyes my	H5869 →
חִדְל֖וּ	chid.Lu	cease	H2308 →
הָרֵֽעַ׃	ha.Re.a'	to do evil	H7489 →

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
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
leads to
- Psalms 145:18
  The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Hebrews 10:22
  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Malachi 3:7
  Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But…
- Zechariah 1:3
  So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
- Isaiah 55:6–7
  Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Through
2 Corinthians 7:1
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7
  For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- 1 Peter 2:11
  Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- James 4:8
  Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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.

Isaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.1 Peter 3:11He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.1 Peter 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.1 Peter 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.James 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.Psalms 51:2Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.Ezekiel 18:30–31Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.Revelation 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.Matthew 3:8Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?Zechariah 1:3–4So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’Isaiah 52:11Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.Proverbs 4:27Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.Job 28:28And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

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