דֶּרֶךְ derek

Meaning

a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb

In the King James Version: along, away, because of, [phrase] by, conversation, custom, (east-) ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-) way(-side), whither(-soever).

Derivation: from H1869 (דָּרַךְ);

Where it is used

• 2 Chronicles 6:38 and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
• 2 Chronicles 7:14 and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
• 2 Chronicles 11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.
• 2 Chronicles 13:22 Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, along with his ways and his words, are written in the Treatise of the Prophet Iddo.
• 2 Chronicles 17:3 Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,
• 2 Chronicles 17:6 And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
• 2 Chronicles 18:23 Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
• 2 Chronicles 20:32 And Jehoshaphat walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn away from it; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 21:6 And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 21:12 Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,
• 2 Chronicles 21:13 but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.
• 2 Chronicles 22:3 Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
• 2 Chronicles 27:6 So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
• 2 Chronicles 27:7 As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
• 2 Chronicles 28:2 Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals.
• 2 Chronicles 28:26 As for the rest of the acts of Ahaz and all his ways, from beginning to end, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
• 2 Chronicles 34:2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
• Ezra 8:21 And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
• Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”
• Ezra 8:31 On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.
• Nehemiah 9:12 You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
• Nehemiah 9:19 You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
• Job 3:23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
• Job 4:6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
• Job 6:18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
• Job 8:19 Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
• Job 12:24 He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
• Job 13:15 Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
• Job 17:9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
• Job 19:12 His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
• Job 21:14 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
• Job 21:29 Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
• Job 21:31 Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
• Job 22:3 Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
• Job 22:28 Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
• Job 23:10 Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
• Job 23:11 My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
• Job 24:4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
• Job 24:13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
• Job 24:18 They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
• Job 24:23 He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
• Job 26:14 Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
• Job 28:23 But God understands its way, and He knows its place.
• Job 28:26 when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
• Job 29:25 I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.
• Job 31:4 Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
• Job 31:7 If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
• Job 34:21 For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
• Job 34:27 because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.
• Job 36:23 Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?
• Job 38:19 Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
• Job 38:24 In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
• Job 38:25 Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
• Job 40:19 He is the foremost of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.
• Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
• Psalms 1:6 For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
• Psalms 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
• Psalms 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
• Psalms 10:5 He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
• Psalms 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.