orach · path, way

What it means

orach (אֹרַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “path, way”.

Way, path; one's usual manner. "The way of women" is menstruation. Also a caravan.

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. A road; or a way of life.
2. A traveler; a caravan.
3. A woman's monthly bleeding, called "the way of women."

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Path: the way one walks on, above all in poetry; and, by extension, the manner of living.

• The paths of YHWH Psalms 25:4Psalms 25:10Isaiah 2:3
• “The path of life” Psalms 16:11Proverbs 15:24
• The path of the righteous against that of the wicked Proverbs 4:18Isaiah 26:7Proverbs 2:13
• “He will make straight your paths” Proverbs 3:6Psalms 27:11
• Caravans; “the manner of women” Job 6:18Genesis 18:11

How we translate it

“Path” 30 times and “paths” 24. This edition keeps “path” for אֹרַח and “way” for דֶּרֶךְ, so that the two words can be told apart when they appear together, as in Proverbs 3:6 (“In all your ways know him, and he will make straight your paths”). In Job 6:18 it is rendered “caravans”, and in Genesis 18:11, “after the manner of women”.

How it is translated

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

• path ×30
• paths ×24
• caravans ×2
• after the manner ×1
• traveler ×1
• ways ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Judges×2
• Job×11
• Psalms×15
• Proverbs×19
• Isaiah×8
• Joel×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 18:11

  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in days; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that its rider falls backward.

• Judges 5:6

  In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the paths ceased, and those who walked on trails went by crooked paths.

• Job 6:18

  The caravans turn aside from their way; they go up into the void and perish.

• Job 6:19

  The caravans of Tema looked; the companies of Sheba hoped for them.

• Job 8:13

  So are the paths of all who forget El, and the hope of the godless perishes,

• Job 13:27

  You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; on the soles of my feet you set a mark.

• Job 16:22

  For years that are numbered will come, and on a path from which I will not return I will go.

• Job 19:8

  He has fenced in my path, and I do not pass; and on my paths he sets darkness.

• Job 22:15

  Will you keep the ancient path that the men of wickedness have trodden,

• Job 30:12

  On my right the brood rises; they push away my feet and build up against me the paths of their calamity.

• Job 31:32

  —in the street the resident alien did not lodge; my doors to the traveler I opened—

• Job 33:11

  He puts my feet in the stocks, he watches all my paths.’

• Job 34:11

  For the work of a human being he repays to him, and according to the path of a man he makes it find him.

• Psalms 8:8

  the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

• Psalms 16:11

  You will make known to me the path of life; fullness of joys with your face; delights at your right hand forever.

• Psalms 17:4

  As for the deeds of human beings, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the violent.

• Psalms 19:5

  and it is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; it rejoices like a mighty man to run the path.

• Psalms 25:4

  Your ways, YHWH, make me know; your paths teach me.

• Psalms 25:10

  All the paths of YHWH are loyal love and faithfulness for those who guard his covenant and his testimonies.

• Psalms 27:11

  Teach me, YHWH, your way, and lead me on a level path because of those who lie in wait for me.

• Psalms 44:18

  Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path,

• Psalms 119:9

  How will a young man keep pure his path? By keeping it according to your word.

• Psalms 119:15

  On your precepts I will reflect, and I will look to your paths.

• Psalms 119:101

  From every evil path I have held back my feet, so that I may keep your word.

• Psalms 119:104

  From your precepts I gain understanding; therefore I hate every path of lying.

• Psalms 119:128

  Therefore I count right all your precepts in everything; every path of lying I hate.

• Psalms 139:3

  My path and my lying down you have sifted, and all my ways you are familiar with.

• Psalms 142:3

  When my spirit grows faint within me, you know my pathway; in the path where I walk they have hidden a snare for me.

• Proverbs 1:19

  So are the paths of everyone greedy for unjust gain: it takes away the soul of its owners.

• Proverbs 2:8

  to guard the paths of justice; and the way of his faithful ones he keeps.

• Proverbs 2:13

  from those who abandon the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

• Proverbs 2:15

  whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their tracks;

• Proverbs 2:19

  None who go in to her come back, nor do they reach the paths of life;

• Proverbs 2:20

  so that you may walk in the way of the good, and keep the paths of the righteous.

• Proverbs 3:6

  In all your ways know him, and he will make straight your paths.

• Proverbs 4:14

  Into the path of the wicked do not enter, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

• Proverbs 4:18

  But the path of the righteous is like the light of brightness, going on and shining until full day.

• Proverbs 5:6

  The path of life she does not level; her tracks wander, and she does not know it.

• Proverbs 8:20

  In the path of righteousness I walk, in the midst of the paths of justice,

And 19 more times.