Worked studies

What it actually looks like when you ask.

Thirteen worked examples — a question, then the Hebrew or Greek that answers it. Every lexicon entry and word thread is shown, so you can run the same steps and get the same result.

These are for the reader who enjoys the original languages — who wants to know why a verb is perfect rather than aorist, and where else that root appears. You need no Hebrew or Greek to follow them. You will finish knowing some.

Read these as samples, not as a ceiling

Each study below answers one question and then stops. That is not what using Darash is actually like. Real study is a conversation: you ask, the answer raises two more questions, you follow one, it turns out to be a dead end, you back up and take the other. You chase a root through forty verses, argue with the assistant about whether a parsing will bear the weight you are putting on it, and change your mind twice before you are done.

None of that fits on a page. What is written up here is the tidied result — a handful of calls in a readable order — because a transcript of the real thing would run to hundreds of exchanges and nobody would read it. Treat these as the shallowest end of what the tool does, not a demonstration of its depth.

All thirteen

The Lamb of God — one phrase, traced to its root
John 1:29 taken word by word. What ἀμνὸς means against πρόβατον, why John reached for that word, and the 65 cross-references that carry it back to Genesis 22 and Exodus 12.
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Greek → Hebrew · 65 cross-references · morphology + lexicons
The Covering — what kaphar really means
One Hebrew root, כפר — to cover — followed through six Torah verses and eight Strong’s entries. Where English says “atonement,” the Hebrew says something far more physical.
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1 root · 6 verses · 8 Strong’s entries
Melchizedek — the priest with no genealogy
A king appears in one verse, blesses Abraham with bread and wine, and vanishes. What his name and title actually say in Hebrew, and why Hebrews 7 builds an argument on his silence.
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Name etymology · Genesis 14 → Psalm 110 → Hebrews 7
The Seed & the Lamb
Genesis 3:15 to Exodus 12 as one thread — including a verb reserved for only three moments in all of Scripture. Follow the promise from the Garden to the doorposts.
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Genesis 3 → Exodus 12 · word threads · cross-references
Born Again — what Nicodemus actually heard
The Greek ἄνωθεν means both “again” and “from above” — and the whole conversation turns on the ambiguity. Then the bronze serpent Jesus points to, and why He points to it.
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Greek ambiguity · John 3 → Numbers 21 · name etymology
Job — the righteous sufferer, read against Torah
Forty-two chapters cross-referenced back into the Law. What Job’s name means, what his complaint is in Hebrew, and how the oldest book in the Bible keeps reaching for Torah vocabulary.
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42 chapters · Genesis → Deuteronomy · 7 tools
Fasting — checking a viral claim against the text
A popular post says fasting “destroys demons.” We took every Torah fasting verse and asked what the Hebrew actually says. The answer is more careful than either side of the argument.
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4 Torah verses · 16 Hebrew words · claim-checking
Tegnet på hånden — 2. Mosebok 13:16
Tefillin-vokabularet i verset som påbyr tefillin, lest på hebraisk. Hva teksten faktisk sier — og hvorfor Shema-bønnen hører hjemme her. På norsk.
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Norsk · hebraisk · 2. Mosebok 13
Olam — the word for eternity means “hidden”
Hebrew built its word for forever on a verb meaning to veil from sight. Strong’s calls it the vanishing point — and Ecclesiastes says God set that in the human heart.
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1 root · 414 occurrences · Ecclesiastes 3:11
Naaman — four verbs, in order
He went down, he immersed himself, his flesh turned back like a child’s, and he was clean. The third verb is the ordinary Hebrew word for repentance.
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2 Kings 5:14 · 4 verbs · one morphology call
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The Veil — torn from above
The curtain BDB defines as “that which habitually shuts off.” Matthew’s verb is passive — it was torn — and the word for “from the top” is the same one Jesus used with Nicodemus.
Exodus 26 → Matthew 27 · passive voice · 4 lexicon entries
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The Cross — why they called it a tree
Greek had an exact word for a Roman gibbet. Peter and Paul reach past it for ξύλον — because that is the word standing in Deuteronomy beside accursed of God.
Deuteronomy 21 → Galatians 3 · stauros vs xylon
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Reborn — two words, each used twice
Outside John 3 the New Testament speaks of rebirth exactly four times. One word covers both a washed person and a renewed cosmos; the other turns active for God and passive for you.
4 occurrences · Titus 3 · Matthew 19 · 1 Peter 1

Every step above is one question to your AI.

Darash connects over MCP — an open standard, not a walled garden — so it works in Claude, Grok, Cursor or whatever you already use. The scholarly sources underneath are the public-domain classics: the Leningrad Codex, Strong’s, Brown-Driver-Briggs, Liddell-Scott-Jones, Abbott-Smith.

And a study rarely stays a study. The Complete Trio adds Junifye, so the notes become a typeset document or book at a permanent link under your own name, and Lexifye, so the words you keep returning to become your own dictionary, coupled to that document. Darash Solo is the engine on its own — you can upgrade to the bundle at any time.

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