הֵלֶךְ
helech · flow, traveler
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1982 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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helech (הֵלֶךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flow, traveler”.
What runs or flows; also "traveler" (2 Samuel 12:4).
How to say it
he·lech
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Someone on a journey, passing through.
- What trickles and spills, like the forest honey.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- traveler ×1
- was flowing ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 14:26
The people came into the forest, and look, the honey was flowing, but no one was putting his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.
- 2 Samuel 12:4
A traveler came to the rich man, and he was loath to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare a meal for the wayfarer who had come to him; so he took the ewe lamb of the poor man and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”