Isaiah 40:18 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and to	H413 →
מִ֖י	mi	whom?	H4310 →
תְּדַמְּי֣וּן	te.da.me.Yun	will you liken !	H1819 →
אֵ֑ל	'El	God	H410 →
וּמַה־	u.mah-	and what?	H4100 →
דְּמ֖וּת	de.Mut	likeness	H1823 →
תַּ֥עַרְכוּ	Ta.'ar.khu	will you compare	H6186 →
לֽוֹ׃	lo	to him

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
Exodus 15:11
Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
leads to
- 1 Kings 8:23
  and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with…
- Psalms 89:5–8
  The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the holy ones.
- 1 Samuel 2:2
  There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
- 2 Samuel 7:22
  How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
- Revelation 4:8
  And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty,…
Through
1 Samuel 2:2
There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 22:32
  For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
- Isaiah 44:6
  Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
- Psalms 86:8
  O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.

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 46:5To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?1 Samuel 2:2There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.Isaiah 40:25“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.Exodus 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?Acts 17:29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.Jeremiah 10:6There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.Psalms 89:6For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?Exodus 8:10“Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.Psalms 89:8O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.Exodus 9:14Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.Exodus 20:4You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.Psalms 86:8–10O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.Isaiah 46:9Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.Deuteronomy 33:26“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.Psalms 113:5Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?Colossians 1:15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

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