Judges 1:4

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.

• וַיַּ֣עַלand he went up

  vaiyaalH5927 →890 times

• יְהוּדָ֔הJudah

  yehudahH3063 →819 times

• וַיִּתֵּ֧ןand he gave

  vaiyitenH5414 →2011 times

• יְהוָ֛הYahweh

  yahwehH3068 →6520 times

• אֶת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• הַכְּנַעֲנִ֥יthe Canaanite[s]

  hakenaaniH3669 →73 times

• וְהַפְּרִזִּ֖יand the Perizzite[s]

  vehapperiziH6522 →23 times

• בְּיָדָ֑םin hand their

  beyadamH3027 →1618 times

• וַיַּכּ֣וּםand they defeated them

  vaiyakumH5221 →499 times

• בְּבֶ֔זֶקat Bezek

  bevezekH966 →

• עֲשֶׂ֥רֶתten

  ʾaseretH6235 →176 times

• אֲלָפִ֖יםthousand<s>

  ʾalafimH505 →505 times

• אִֽישׁ׃man

  ʾishH376 →1663 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

  1 Kings 22:6

  So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will…

  it leads to

  • 1 Kings 18:19

    Now summon all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

  • Jeremiah 23:14–17

    And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness.…

  • Ezekiel 13:7–16

    Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ even though I have not spoken?

  • Ezekiel 13:22

    Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their…

• Through

  1 Samuel 14:10

  But if they say, ‘Come on up,’ then we will go up, because this will be our sign that the LORD has delivered them into our hands.”

  it leads to

  • Genesis 24:14

    Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be…

  • Judges 7:11

    and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.

• Through

  1 Samuel 11:8

  And when Saul numbered them at Bezek, there were 300,000 Israelites and 30,000 men of Judah.

  it leads to

  • Judges 1:4–5

    When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.

  • 2 Samuel 24:9

    And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.