Numbers 23:8 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מָ֣ה	mah	what?	H4100 →
אֶקֹּ֔ב	'e.Ko	will I curse	H6895 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	[one whom] not	H3808 →
קַבֹּ֖ה	ka.Boh	he has cursed him	H6895 →
אֵ֑ל	'El	God	H410 →
וּמָ֣ה	u.Mah	and what?	H4100 →
אֶזְעֹ֔ם	'ez.'Om	will I denounce	H2194 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	[one whom] not	H3808 →
זָעַ֖ם	za.'Am	he has denounced	H2194 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

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 23:20
I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
leads to
- Genesis 12:2
  I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 10:27–29
  My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
- Numbers 22:12
  But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”
Through
Numbers 23:23
For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
leads to
- Luke 10:18–19
  So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
- Joshua 13:22
  The Israelites also killed the diviner Balaam son of Beor along with the others they put to the sword.
Through
Isaiah 44:25
who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
leads to
- Psalms 33:10
  The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
- Job 5:12–14
  He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
Through
Numbers 22:12
But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 23:5
  Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

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.

Proverbs 26:2Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.Numbers 23:23For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’Isaiah 44:25who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,Numbers 23:20I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.Numbers 22:12But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”Genesis 27:29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”Isaiah 47:12–13So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!Genesis 31:55Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.Deuteronomy 32:31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

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