Numbers 13:28 BSB — MannaFest

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15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֶ֚פֶס	'E.fes	nevertheless	H657 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
עַ֣ז	'az	[is] strong	H5794 →
הָעָ֔ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
הַיֹּשֵׁ֖ב	hai.yo.Shev	which dwells	H3427 →
בָּאָ֑רֶץ	ba.'A.retz	in the land	H776 →
וְהֶֽעָרִ֗ים	ve.he.'a.Rim	and the cities	H5892 →
בְּצֻר֤וֹת	be.tzu.Rot	[are] fortified	H1219 →
גְּדֹלֹת֙	ge.do.Lot	large	H1419 →
מְאֹ֔ד	me.'Od	very	H3966 →
וְגַם־	ve.gam-	and also	H1571 →
יְלִדֵ֥י	ye.li.Dei	those born of	H3211 →
הָֽעֲנָ֖ק	ha.'a.Nak	<the> Anak	H6061 →
רָאִ֥ינוּ	ra.'I.nu	we saw	H7200 →
שָֽׁם׃	Sham	there	H8033 →

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
Numbers 13:33
We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 1:28
  Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…
- Genesis 6:4
  The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of…
- Isaiah 40:22
  He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
- 1 Samuel 17:42
  When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.
- Deuteronomy 9:2
  The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”
Through
Joshua 11:22
No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 17:4
  Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,
Through
Deuteronomy 1:28
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…
leads to
- Numbers 13:28–33
  Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
- Deuteronomy 9:1–2
  Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

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.

Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”Deuteronomy 9:1–2Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.Joshua 14:12Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”Numbers 13:33We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”Joshua 11:22No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.Deuteronomy 2:10–11(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.Joshua 15:14And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.Deuteronomy 2:21They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,Deuteronomy 3:5All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.Numbers 13:22–23They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.Judges 1:20Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.Deuteronomy 2:11Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.Deuteronomy 9:2The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”Numbers 13:32So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

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