arach · travel

What it means

arach (אָרַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “travel”.

Be on the road; "the traveler" is one who is passing through.

How to say it

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

1. Go from place to place; one passing by on the road.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• traveler ×2
• goes ×1
• travelers ×1
• wayfarer ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Jeremiah×2

• Judges 19:17

  And he lifted up his eyes and saw the man, the traveler, in the square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”

• 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.”

• Job 34:8

  and goes in company with those who work wickedness, and walks with men of wickedness?

• Jeremiah 9:2

  Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of traitors.

• Jeremiah 14:8

  Hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of distress, why should you be like a resident alien in the land, and like a traveler who turns aside to spend the night?