yalach · go, walk

What it means

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

Depart; in the causative form, lead or bring.

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 head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
2. To accompany someone on the way, to go along with him.
3. To conduct oneself day by day in a certain way, as one walks along a road.
4. To lead someone to another place, or to bring him along.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Go, walk. It has its own Strong number, but it is the same verb as הָלַךְ, “go, walk”, in some of its forms. In the causative form, “lead”.

• To go to a place; “go!” Genesis 22:2Genesis 12:19
• To go with someone, to accompany him Genesis 24:58Ruth 1:16
• A call to set out Exodus 3:10
• To walk together Genesis 22:6
• To walk in the ways of YHWH: to live by his commandments Deuteronomy 8:6

How we translate it

“Go” 395 times, “went” 332, “walk” 88, “Come” 71, “walked” 31. For movement it is translated “go”; for a way of life (“walking in his ways”, Deuteronomy 8:6), “walk”. The imperative also serves to urge someone to act (“So now, go”, Exodus 3:10), and as “Come” it invites others to act together.

How it is translated

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

• go ×395
• went ×332
• walk ×88
• Come ×71
• walked ×31
• going ×19
• led ×17
• walking ×11
• gone ×7
• goes ×6
• others ×64

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×88
• Exodus×61
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×33
• Deuteronomy×38
• Joshua×29
• Judges×85
• Ruth×15
• 1 Samuel×97
• 2 Samuel×64
• 1 Kings×98
• 2 Kings×85
• 1 Chronicles×12
• 2 Chronicles×37
• Ezra×3
• Nehemiah×10
• Esther×1
• Job×11
• Psalms×26
• Proverbs×17
• Ecclesiastes×13
• Song of Songs×4
• Isaiah×36
• Jeremiah×71
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×45
• Daniel×3
• Hosea×16
• Joel×4
• Amos×7
• Jonah×4
• Micah×9
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×7

• Genesis 3:14

  And YHWH Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you from among all the livestock and from among every animal of the field; on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

• Genesis 7:18

  And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark moved on the surface of the waters.

• Genesis 9:23

  And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and laid it on the shoulders of both of them, and they walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and the nakedness of their father they did not see.

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.

• Genesis 12:1

  YHWH said to Abram, “Go from your land, from your kindred, and from the house of your father to the land that I will show you.

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram went, just as YHWH had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.

• Genesis 12:5

  Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for myself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her and go!”

• Genesis 13:3

  He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

• Genesis 14:11

  They took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and went away.

• Genesis 14:12

  They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, and his possessions, and went away; for he was living in Sodom.

• Genesis 16:8

  He said, “Hagar, slave woman of Sarai, where from have you come, and where are you going?” She said, “From the presence of Sarai my mistress I am fleeing.”

• Genesis 18:22

  The men turned from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before YHWH.

• Genesis 18:33

  YHWH went his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

• Genesis 19:32

  Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

• Genesis 21:14

  Abraham rose early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and also the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

• Genesis 21:16

  Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the child.” And she sat opposite him, lifted up her voice, and wept.

• Genesis 21:19

  Then Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy.

• Genesis 22:2

  He said, “Take, please, your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you.”

• Genesis 22:3

  Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he rose and went to the place that Elohim had told him.

• Genesis 22:5

  Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there; we will bow down and come back to you.”

• Genesis 22:6

  Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And the two of them went together.

• Genesis 22:8

  Abraham said, “Elohim will see for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

• Genesis 22:13

  Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and look, a ram behind him, caught in the thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.

• Genesis 22:19

  Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived in Beersheba.

• Genesis 24:4

  but to my land and to my kindred you will go and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

• Genesis 24:5

  The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman will not be willing to come after me to this land. Must I then take back your son to the land from which you came?”

• Genesis 24:8

  But if the woman is not willing to come after you, you will be free from this oath of mine; only do not take back my son there.”

• Genesis 24:10

  The servant took ten camels from the camels of his lord and went, with all kinds of good things of his lord in his hand. He rose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

• Genesis 24:38

  but to the house of my father you will go, and to my family, and take a wife for my son.’

• Genesis 24:39

  I said to my lord, ‘Perhaps the woman will not come after me.’

• Genesis 24:51

  Look, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your lord’s son, as YHWH has spoken.”

• Genesis 24:55

  Her brother and her mother said, “Let the girl stay with us some days, or ten; after that she will go.”

• Genesis 24:56

  He said to them, “Do not delay me, since YHWH has made successful my journey. Send me away so that I may go to my lord.”

• Genesis 24:58

  They called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”

• Genesis 24:61

  Rebekah and her girls rose and rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and went.

• Genesis 25:22

  The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If so, why me?” So she went to inquire of YHWH.

• Genesis 25:34

  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, rose, and went away. So Esau despised the birthright.

• Genesis 26:1

  There was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that there was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

• Genesis 26:13

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

And 1001 more times.