הָלַךְ

ha.lakhto go: wentHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb1,548 occurrences37 books1,346 verses

Definition

akin to H3212; a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Traditional renderings: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, be eased, enter, exercise (self), follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, × more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), send, speedily, spread, still, surely, tale-bearer, travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-) faring man, × be weak, whirl.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders הָלַךְ:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,548 total
  1. 1 Kings 8:23הַהֹלְכִ֥ים · who walk
    …and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
  2. 1 Kings 8:25לָלֶ֣כֶת · to walk; הָלַ֖כְתָּ · you have [done]
    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
  3. 1 Kings 8:36יֵֽלְכוּ־ · they should walk
    …then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
  4. 1 Kings 8:58לָלֶ֣כֶת · to walk
    May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.
  5. 1 Kings 8:61לָלֶ֧כֶת · to walk
    So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
  6. 1 Kings 8:66וַיֵּלְכ֣וּ · and went
    On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
  7. 1 Kings 9:4תֵּלֵ֣ךְ · you walk; הָלַ֜ךְ · walked
    And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
  8. 1 Kings 9:6וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֗ם · and if you go off
    But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
  9. 1 Kings 10:13וַתֵּ֥לֶךְ · and returned
    King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired—whatever she asked—besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned to her own country, along with her servants.
  10. 1 Kings 11:5וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ · followed
    Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  11. 1 Kings 11:10לֶ֔כֶת · to follow
    Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
  12. 1 Kings 11:21וְאֵלֵ֥ךְ · that I may return
    When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”
  13. 1 Kings 11:22לָלֶ֣כֶת · to go back
    But Pharaoh asked him, “What have you lacked here with me that you suddenly want to go back to your own country?” “Nothing,” Hadad replied, “but please let me go.”
  14. 1 Kings 11:24וַיֵּלְכ֤וּ · and went
    …and had gathered men to himself. When David killed the Zobaites, Rezon captained a band of raiders and went to Damascus, where they settled and gained control.
  15. 1 Kings 11:33הָלְכ֣וּ · walked
    For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
  16. 1 Kings 11:38וְהָלַכְתָּ֣ · walk
    If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
  17. 1 Kings 12:1וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ · went
    Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
  18. 1 Kings 12:5לְכ֥וּ · Go away; וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ · departed
    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
  19. 1 Kings 12:16וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ · went
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
  20. 1 Kings 12:24לָלֶ֖כֶת
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.
  21. 1 Kings 12:30וַיֵּלְכ֥וּ · walked
    And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.
  22. 1 Kings 13:9הָלָֽכְתָּ׃ · you came
    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
  23. 1 Kings 13:10וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ · So [the man of God] went
    So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
  24. 1 Kings 13:12הָלָ֑ךְ · did he go; הָלַךְ֙ · taken
    “Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
  25. 1 Kings 13:14וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ · and went
    …and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
  26. 1 Kings 13:15לֵ֥ךְ · Come
    So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
  27. 1 Kings 13:17לָלֶ֔כֶת · you came; הָלַ֥כְתָּ
    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
  28. 1 Kings 13:24וַיֵּ֕לֶךְ · As he went on his way
    As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
  29. 1 Kings 13:28וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ · and he went
    …and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.
  30. 1 Kings 14:2וְהָלַ֣כְתְּ · and go
    …and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.
  31. 1 Kings 14:4וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ · and went
    Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
  32. 1 Kings 14:7לְכִ֞י · Go
    Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
  33. 1 Kings 14:8הָלַ֤ךְ · followed Me
    I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
  34. 1 Kings 14:9וַתֵּ֡לֶךְ · You have proceeded
    You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
  35. 1 Kings 14:12לְכִ֣י · and go
    As for you, get up and go home. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.
  36. 1 Kings 14:17וַתֵּ֖לֶךְ · and departed
    Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
  37. 1 Kings 15:3וַיֵּ֕לֶךְ · And Abijam walked
    And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
  38. 1 Kings 15:19לֵ֣ךְ · Now go
    “Let there be a treaty between me and you as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
  39. 1 Kings 15:26וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ · and walked
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
  40. 1 Kings 15:34וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ · and walked
    And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
  41. 1 Kings 16:2וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ׀ · you have walked
    “Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.
  42. 1 Kings 16:19לָלֶ֙כֶת֙ · and following
    …because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
  43. 1 Kings 16:26וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ · For he walked
    For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
  44. 1 Kings 16:31לֶכְתּ֔וֹ · for him to walk; וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ · and he then proceeded
    And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.