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.
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
Occurrences
1,548 total
- Jeremiah 7:9וְהָלֹ֗ךְ · and followWill you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
- Jeremiah 7:12לְכוּ־ · goBut go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
- Jeremiah 7:23וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֗ם · You must walk…but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
- Jeremiah 7:24וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ · but they followedYet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Jeremiah 8:2הָלְכ֣וּ · followedThey will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
- Jeremiah 9:2וְאֵלְכָ֖ה · and departIf only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- Jeremiah 9:4יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃ · spreads“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
- Jeremiah 9:10הָלָֽכוּ׃ · they have gone awayI will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
- Jeremiah 9:13הָ֥לְכוּ · walkedAnd the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
- Jeremiah 9:14וַיֵּ֣לְכ֔וּ · Instead, they have followedInstead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
- Jeremiah 10:23הֹלֵ֔ךְ · who walksI know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
- Jeremiah 11:8וַיֵּ֣לְכ֔וּ · followedYet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
- Jeremiah 11:10הָלְכ֗וּ · have followedThey have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
- Jeremiah 11:12וְהָֽלְכ֞וּ · will goThen the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
- Jeremiah 12:2יֵלְכ֖וּ · They have grownYou planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
- Jeremiah 12:9לְכ֗וּ · GoIs not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
- Jeremiah 13:1הָל֞וֹךְ · GoThis is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
- Jeremiah 13:4לֵ֣ךְ · and go“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
- Jeremiah 13:5וָאֵלֵ֕ךְ · So I wentSo I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.
- Jeremiah 13:6לֵ֣ךְ · goMany days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
- Jeremiah 13:7וָאֵלֵ֣ךְ · So I wentSo I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.
- Jeremiah 13:10הַהֹֽלְכִים֙ · who follow; וַיֵּלְכ֗וּ · and who goThese evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
- Jeremiah 15:6תֵּלֵ֑כִיYou have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
- Jeremiah 16:5תֵּלֵ֣ךְ · goIndeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 16:11וַיֵּלְכ֗וּ · and followedThen you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
- Jeremiah 16:12הֹלְכִ֗ים · followsAnd you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Jeremiah 17:19הָלֹ֤ךְ · GoThis is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 18:12נֵלֵ֔ךְ · We will followBut they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- Jeremiah 18:15לָלֶ֣כֶת · to walkYet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
- Jeremiah 18:18לְכ֨וּ · Come; לְכוּ֙ · ComeThen some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Jeremiah 19:1הָל֛וֹךְ · GoThis is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
- Jeremiah 19:10הַהֹלְכִ֖ים · who accompanyThen you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
- Jeremiah 20:6תֵּלְכ֖וּ · will goAnd you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”
- Jeremiah 22:10לַֽהֹלֵ֔ךְ · for him who is exiledDo not weep for him who is dead; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for him who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
- Jeremiah 22:22יֵלֵ֑כוּ · will goThe wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
- Jeremiah 23:14וְהָלֹ֤ךְ · and walkAnd among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
- Jeremiah 23:17הֹלֵ֞ךְ · who walksThey keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
- Jeremiah 25:6תֵּלְכ֗וּ · followDo not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
- Jeremiah 26:4לָלֶ֙כֶת֙ · and walkAnd you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,
- Jeremiah 28:11וַיֵּ֛לֶךְ · wentAnd in the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations.’” At this, Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.
- Jeremiah 28:13הָלוֹךְ֩ · Go“Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’
- Jeremiah 29:12וַֽהֲלַכְתֶּ֔ם · and comeThen you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
- Jeremiah 30:16יֵלֵ֑כוּ · will go offNevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them—will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
- Jeremiah 31:2הָל֥וֹךְ · wentThis is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
- Jeremiah 31:9אֽוֹלִיכֵם֙ · I will make them walkThey will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
- Jeremiah 31:21הָלָכְתִּי · you have traveled“Set up the road markers, put up the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.
- Jeremiah 32:5יוֹלִ֤ךְ · He will takeHe will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
- Jeremiah 32:23הָלָ֔כוּ · or walkThey came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.