halach · go, walk

What it means

halach (הָלַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “go, walk”.

Come. Figuratively, the way one lives ("walk with God").

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. To move on foot from place to place; to set out.
2. To move about with no fixed course, roaming a place.
3. Literally "to go": to live a certain way, as Enoch with Elohim.
4. "Go after" someone, follow them.
5. Something that grows little by little.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Go, walk. It is the same verb as יָלַךְ (H3212): its forms are divided between the two Strong numbers, and here are mainly the perfect, the participle and the form that means “walk about”. What is said under H3212 about “go” holds here too.

• To walk with Elohim or before him Genesis 5:24Genesis 17:1Genesis 24:40
• To walk about Genesis 3:8
• To walk in a way: one's manner of life Psalms 1:1Psalms 15:2
• To “walk after” other gods or empty things: to follow them Jeremiah 2:81 Kings 11:33
• Next to another verb, an action that goes on little by little Genesis 8:3Genesis 12:9

How we translate it

“Go” 100 times, “went” 74, “walk” 66, “walked” 56, “going” 49, “walks” 33. It is translated “walk” when the verb describes a way of life (“Enoch walked with Elohim”), and “walk after” in הָלַךְ אַחֲרֵי, which expresses following someone. Next to another verb it is rendered by its sense (“going and receding”, Genesis 8:3; “moving on by stages”, Genesis 12:9).

How it is translated

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

• go ×100
• went ×74
• walk ×66
• walked ×56
• going ×49
• walks ×33
• goes ×32
• walking ×19
• had gone ×13
• gone ×11
• others ×54

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×33
• Exodus×12
• Leviticus×12
• Numbers×13
• Deuteronomy×15
• Joshua×22
• Judges×26
• Ruth×3
• 1 Samuel×40
• 2 Samuel×34
• 1 Kings×24
• 2 Kings×14
• 1 Chronicles×11
• 2 Chronicles×15
• Nehemiah×3
• Esther×3
• Job×18
• Psalms×42
• Proverbs×21
• Ecclesiastes×17
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×26
• Jeremiah×45
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×22
• Hosea×6
• Amos×2
• Jonah×2
• Micah×3
• Nahum×2
• Habakkuk×2
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×10
• Malachi×2

• Genesis 2:14

  And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

• Genesis 3:8

  And they heard the sound of YHWH Elohim walking about in the garden in the wind of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the presence of YHWH Elohim among the trees of the garden.

• Genesis 5:22

  And Enoch walked with Elohim after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:24

  And Enoch walked with Elohim, and he was not, for Elohim took him.

• Genesis 6:9

  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; with Elohim Noah walked.

• Genesis 8:3

  And the waters receded from the earth, going and receding; and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had decreased.

• Genesis 8:5

  And the waters kept on decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

• Genesis 12:9

  Then Abram set out, moving on by stages toward the Negev.

• Genesis 13:5

  Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheep, cattle, and tents.

• Genesis 13:17

  Get up, walk through the land along its length and along its width, for to you I will give it.”

• Genesis 14:24

  Nothing for me; only what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their share.”

• Genesis 15:2

  But Abram said, “Adonai YHWH, what will you give me, while I go on childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

• Genesis 17:1

  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, YHWH appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless.

• Genesis 18:16

  Then the men got up from there and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them on their way.

• Genesis 19:2

  He said, “Look now, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No, we will spend the night in the square.”

• Genesis 24:40

  He said to me, ‘YHWH, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and make successful your journey, and you will take a wife for my son from my family and from the house of my father.

• Genesis 24:42

  I came today to the spring and said, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, if now you are making successful my journey on which I am going,

• Genesis 24:65

  She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “He is my lord.” So she took the veil and covered herself.

• Genesis 25:32

  Esau said, “Look, I am going to die; what good is a birthright to me?”

• Genesis 26:13

  The man became great and went on growing greater until he became very great.

• Genesis 26:26

  Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the commander of his army.

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob made a vow, saying, “If Elohim is with me and keeps me on this way that I am going, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father.

• Genesis 31:30

  Now you have indeed gone because you longed greatly for the house of your father; why did you steal my gods?”

• Genesis 32:1

  Now Jacob went on his way, and angels of Elohim met him.

• Genesis 32:6

  The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

• Genesis 32:19

  He commanded also the second, also the third, and also all who were going after the herds, saying, “According to this word you shall speak to Esau when you find him.

• Genesis 32:20

  And you shall say, ‘Also, look, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he said to himself, “I will appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

• Genesis 34:17

  But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

• Genesis 35:3

  Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to El who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me on the way that I have gone.”

• Genesis 37:25

  Then they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted their eyes and looked, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying aromatic gum, balm, and ladanum, on their way to take it down to Egypt.

• Genesis 48:15

  He blessed Joseph and said, “The Elohim before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the Elohim who has shepherded me since I came to be until this day,

• Exodus 2:5

  The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, while her young women were walking beside the Nile. She saw the ark among the reeds and sent her maid, and she took it.

• Exodus 3:19

  But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, and not by a strong hand.

• Exodus 9:23

  Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and YHWH sent thunder and hail, and fire went down to the earth; and YHWH rained hail on the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 10:8

  So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve YHWH your Elohim. Who and who are the ones going?”

• Exodus 13:21

  YHWH went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give light to them, so that they could travel by day and by night.

• Exodus 14:19

  Then the angel of Elohim, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,

• Exodus 14:29

  But the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.

• Exodus 15:19

  For when the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, YHWH brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

And 467 more times.