Judges 17:5

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.

• וְהָאִ֣ישׁand the man

  vehaishH376 →1663 times

• מִיכָ֔הMicah

  mikhahH4318 →33 times

• ל֖וֹ[belonged] to <the> him

  lo

• בֵּ֣יתa house of

  beitH1004 →2046 times

• אֱלֹהִ֑יםGod

  ʾelohimH430 →2601 times

• וַיַּ֤עַשׂand he made

  vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

• אֵפוֹד֙an ephod

  ʾefodH646 →49 times

• וּתְרָפִ֔יםand teraphim

  uterafimH8655 →15 times

• וַיְמַלֵּ֗אand he filled

  vaymale'H4390 →249 times

• אֶת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• יַ֤ד[the] hand of

  yadH3027 →1618 times

• אַחַד֙one

  ʾachadH259 →971 times

• מִבָּנָ֔יוfrom sons his

  mibanavH1121 →4930 times

• וַיְהִי־and he became

  vayhi-H1961 →3559 times

• ל֖וֹof him

  lo

• לְכֹהֵֽן׃<into> a priest

  lekhohenH3548 →750 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 31:30

  Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

  it leads to

  • Genesis 31:19

    Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

• Through

  Genesis 31:19

  Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 19:13

    Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

  • Hosea 3:4

    For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

  • Genesis 31:30

    Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

  • Genesis 35:2

    So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

  • Ezekiel 21:21

    For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the…

• Through

  Judges 8:27

  From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

  it leads to

  • Psalms 106:39

    They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

  • Deuteronomy 7:16

    You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.