Jonah 4:3

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.

• וְעַתָּ֣הand therefore

  veatahH6258 →

• יְהוָ֔הO Yahweh

  yahwehH3068 →6520 times

• קַח־take

  kach-H3947 →

• נָ֥אplease

  na'H4994 →404 times

• אֶת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• נַפְשִׁ֖יlife my

  nafshiH5315 →754 times

• מִמֶּ֑נִּיfrom me

  mimeniH4480 →1188 times

• כִּ֛יfor

  kiH3588 →4482 times

• ט֥וֹב[is] good

  tovH2896 →

• מוֹתִ֖יdeath my

  motiH4194 →156 times

• מֵחַיָּֽי׃ סmore than life my

  mechaiyaiH2416 →498 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

  Ecclesiastes 7:1

  A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

  it leads to

  • Revelation 14:13

    And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors,…

  • Proverbs 22:1

    A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:2

    So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:8

    We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

  • Philippians 1:21–23

    For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

• Through

  1 Kings 19:4

  while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life,…

  it leads to

  • Numbers 11:15

    If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

  • Jonah 4:8

    As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me…

• Through

  Jonah 4:8

  As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me…

  it leads to

  • Psalms 121:6

    The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.