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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. Genesis 37:12וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ · had gone
    Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
  2. Genesis 37:13לְכָ֖ה · Get ready
    Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
  3. Genesis 37:14לֶךְ־ · Go
    Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
  4. Genesis 37:17נֵלְכָ֖ה · Let us go; וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ · set out
    “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
  5. Genesis 37:20לְכ֣וּ · Come
    “Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
  6. Genesis 37:25הוֹלְכִ֖ים · on their way
    And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
  7. Genesis 37:27לְכ֞וּ · Come
    Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
  8. Genesis 38:11וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ · went
    Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
  9. Genesis 38:19וַתֵּ֔לֶךְ · and departed
    Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
  10. Genesis 41:55לְכ֣וּ · Go
    When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
  11. Genesis 42:19לְכ֣וּ · go
    If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.
  12. Genesis 42:26וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ · and departed
    …and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
  13. Genesis 42:33וָלֵֽכוּ׃ · and go
    Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.
  14. Genesis 42:38תֵּֽלְכוּ־
    But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
  15. Genesis 43:8וְנֵלֵ֑כָה · and we will go at once
    And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
  16. Genesis 45:17וּלְכוּ־ · and return
    Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.
  17. Genesis 45:24וַיֵּלֵ֑כוּ · and as they were leaving
    Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!”
  18. Genesis 45:28אֵֽלְכָ֥ה · I will go
    “Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
  19. Genesis 48:15הִתְהַלְּכ֨וּ · walked
    Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
  20. Genesis 50:18וַיֵּלְכוּ֙ · came to him
    His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”
  21. Exodus 2:1וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ
    Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
  22. Exodus 2:5הֹלְכֹ֖ת · were walking
    Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
  23. Exodus 2:7הַאֵלֵ֗ךְ · Shall I go
    Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
  24. Exodus 2:8לֵ֑כִי · Go ahead; וַתֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ · went
    “Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
  25. Exodus 2:9הֵילִ֜יכִי · Take
    Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
  26. Exodus 3:10לְכָ֔ה · go
    Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
  27. Exodus 3:11אֵלֵ֖ךְ · I should go
    But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
  28. Exodus 3:16לֵ֣ךְ · Go
    Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
  29. Exodus 3:18נֵֽלֲכָה־ · let us take
    The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
  30. Exodus 3:19לַהֲלֹ֑ךְ · you to go
    But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.
  31. Exodus 3:21תֵֽלֵכ֔וּן · you leave; תֵלְכ֖וּ · go away
    And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
  32. Exodus 4:12לֵ֑ךְ · go
    Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”
  33. Exodus 4:18וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ · went; אֵ֣לֲכָה; לֵ֥ךְ · Go
    Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
  34. Exodus 4:19לֵ֖ךְ · Go
    Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”
  35. Exodus 4:21בְּלֶכְתְּךָ֙ · When you go
    The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
  36. Exodus 4:27לֵ֛ךְ · Go; וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ · So he went
    Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
  37. Exodus 4:29וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ · went
    Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,
  38. Exodus 5:3נֵ֣לֲכָה · let us go on
    “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
  39. Exodus 5:4לְכ֖וּ · Get back
    But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”
  40. Exodus 5:7יֵֽלְכ֔וּ · must go
    “You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
  41. Exodus 5:8נֵלְכָ֖ה · Let us go
    But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
  42. Exodus 5:11לְכ֨וּ · Go
    Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
  43. Exodus 5:17נֵלְכָ֖ה · Let us go
    “You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
  44. Exodus 5:18לְכ֣וּ · get to
    Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”