Parts of Speech
Archaic Word Detectives
Hidden Geography
Story Starters
Connections & Patterns
100

In Genesis 1:1, this action word shows something being brought into existence before anything else existed.

What is “created”?

100

In Scriptures they often use words that are outdated; this word means to receive or obtain.

What is “gat”?

100

This large body of water is mentioned when Israel crossed over on dry land - a miracle - the Most High showed.

What is the Red Sea?

100

In Genesis 1:1, this opening focuses on how everything began.

What is creation?

100

In Genesis 1:1, this word names the One who performs the action in the verse.

Who is God?

200

In Judges 1:1 and several other 1 and ones, this small connecting word shows the story is continuing from earlier events.

What is “now”?

200

In the Books beginning in Joshua, this word often describes defeating an enemy in battle.

What is “smote”?

200

In 2 Kings 1:1, this neighboring nation refused loyalty after a king’s death.

Who are the Moabites?

200

This story begins during a chaotic time where Israel sinned again and again.

What is the book of Judges?

200

In Exodus 1:1, who came into Egypt.

What is Jacob and his household?

300

In 1 Samuel 1:1, this describing word introduces a man before telling his name.

What is “certain”?

300

Throughout the narrative sections starting in Exodus, this word is an older way of saying “spoke or to speak.”

What is “spake”?

300

In Deuteronomy 1:1, Moses describes the setting of his speech by naming several wilderness locations between Paran and Dizahab. Name these places.

What are Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab?

300

In Judges 1:1, the story begins after a leader has died, and the people ask the LORD a question about what to do next.

What is Israel asking who should go first to fight?

300

In 1 Kings 1:1, this word shows a physical condition, sorrow or broken-heartedness in addition to old age.

What is stricken?

400

In Exodus 1:1, this naming word refers both to a single ancestor and the entire nation.

What is “Israel”?

400

In genealogies beginning in Genesis, this word refers to fathering a child.

What is “begat”?

400

In Deuteronomy 1:1, Moses uses this river as a major landmark to describe where he spoke to Israel.

What is the Jordan River?

400

This opening sets the story during a difficult national time and begins with a crisis that forces a family to leave their homeland.

What is a famine in the land?

400

Who died before Moab rebelled?

Who is Ahab?

500

In 1 Kings 1:1, this word describes a physical condition of an elder instead of action.

What is “old”?

500

In journeys described from Exodus through Kings, this word shows movement toward a destination.

What is “thither”?

500

In Deuteronomy 1:1, this location is one of several locations that are only mentioned once in Scripture.

What is Dizahab?

500

This book began with a show of leadership changing after a death of The Most High's friend.

What is the book of Joshua?

500

How many times was the word "second" used in Numbers 1:1.

What is two times?

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