הָלַךְ hâlak

Meaning

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

In the King James Version: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, [phrase] be eased, enter, exercise (self), [phrase] follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), [phrase] greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, [idiom] more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), [phrase] send, speedily, spread, still, surely, [phrase] tale-bearer, [phrase] travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-) faring man, [idiom] be weak, whirl.

Derivation: akin to H3212 (יָלַךְ); a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Proverbs 15:12 A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.
• Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.
• Proverbs 16:29 A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.
• Proverbs 19:1 Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
• Proverbs 20:7 The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
• Proverbs 20:19 He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
• Proverbs 23:31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
• Proverbs 24:34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
• Proverbs 28:6 Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
• Proverbs 28:18 He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
• Proverbs 28:26 He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
• Proverbs 30:29 There are three things that are stately in their stride, and four that are impressive in their walk:
• Ecclesiastes 1:4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
• Ecclesiastes 1:6 The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.
• Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
• Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
• Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
• Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
• Ecclesiastes 4:15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
• Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
• Ecclesiastes 5:15 As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
• Ecclesiastes 5:16 This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
• Ecclesiastes 6:4 For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
• Ecclesiastes 6:6 even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
• Ecclesiastes 6:8 What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
• Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• Ecclesiastes 7:2 It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
• Ecclesiastes 8:3 Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
• Ecclesiastes 8:10 Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
• Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
• Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
• Ecclesiastes 10:3 Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.
• Ecclesiastes 10:7 I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
• Ecclesiastes 10:15 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
• Ecclesiastes 10:20 Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech.
• Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
• Ecclesiastes 12:5 when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
• Song of Solomon 2:10 My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
• Song of Solomon 2:11 For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
• Song of Solomon 2:13 The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
• Song of Solomon 4:6 Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
• Song of Solomon 6:1 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.
• Song of Solomon 7:9 and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.
• Song of Solomon 7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.
• Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
• Isaiah 2:3 And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 2:5 Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
• Isaiah 3:16 The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
• Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!”
• Isaiah 6:9 And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
• Isaiah 8:6 “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
• Isaiah 8:7 the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
• Isaiah 8:11 For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
• Isaiah 9:2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
• Isaiah 18:2 which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
• Isaiah 20:2 the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
• Isaiah 20:3 Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,
• Isaiah 21:6 For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
• Isaiah 22:15 This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:
• Isaiah 26:20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.