Judges 11:3 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּבְרַ֤ח	vai.yiv.Rach	and he fled	H1272 →
יִפְתָּח֙	yif.Tach	Jephthah	H3316 →
מִפְּנֵ֣י	mi.pe.Nei	[away] from before	H6440 →
אֶחָ֔יו	'e.Chav	brothers his	H251 →
וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב	vai.Ye.shev	and he dwelt	H3427 →
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
ט֑וֹב	Tov	Tob	H2897 →
וַיִּֽתְלַקְּט֤וּ	vai.yit.la.ke.Tu	and they joined themselves	H3950 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יִפְתָּח֙	yif.Tach	Jephthah	H3316 →
אֲנָשִׁ֣ים	'a.na.Shim	men	H582 →
רֵיקִ֔ים	rei.Kim	unprincipled	H7386 →
וַיֵּצְא֖וּ	vai.ye.tze.'U	and they went out	H3318 →
עִמּֽוֹ׃ פ	i.Mo	with him	H5973 →

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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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
1 Samuel 22:2
And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 25:13
  And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 11:28
  Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Psalms 72:12–14
  For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
- 1 Samuel 1:10
  In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
- 1 Samuel 30:22–24
  but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for…
Through
Judges 9:4
So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
leads to
- Judges 8:33
  And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
- 2 Chronicles 13:7
  Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.
Through
1 Samuel 27:2
So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 21:10
  That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.

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.

Judges 9:4So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.1 Samuel 22:2And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.1 Samuel 27:2So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.Job 30:1–10“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.2 Samuel 10:8The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.2 Samuel 10:6When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.Acts 17:5The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.1 Samuel 30:22–24but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”2 Chronicles 13:7Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.

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