Joshua 4:2

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.

• קְח֤וּtake

  kechuH3947 →966 times

• לָכֶם֙for <the> yourselves

  lakhem

• מִן־from

  min-H4480 →1188 times

• הָעָ֔םthe people

  haamH5971 →1873 times

• שְׁנֵ֥יםtwo [plus]

  sheneimH8147 →768 times

• עָשָׂ֖רten

  ʾasarH6240 →338 times

• אֲנָשִׁ֑יםmen

  ʾanashimH582 →566 times

• אִישׁ־a man

  ʾish-H376 →1663 times

• אֶחָ֥דone

  ʾechadH259 →971 times

• אִישׁ־a man

  ʾish-H376 →1663 times

• אֶחָ֖דone

  ʾechadH259 →971 times

• מִשָּֽׁבֶט׃from a tribe

  mishavetH7626 →190 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

  Numbers 13:2

  “Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”

  it leads to

  • Deuteronomy 1:22–25

    Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”

  • Numbers 32:8

    This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

  • Numbers 34:18

    Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

• Through

  1 Kings 18:31

  And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”

  it leads to

  • 2 Kings 17:34

    To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He…

  • Genesis 35:10

    And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

  • Genesis 32:28

    Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

  • Joshua 4:20

    And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

  • Joshua 4:3–4

    and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend…