Strong's Hebrew · H1980
H1980 hâlak
הָלַךְ
haw-lak'
to go
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hâlak appears 1,546 times in Scripture, including Genesis 2:14 and Genesis 3:8. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
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, be eased, enter, exercise (self), follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, × more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), send, speedily, spread, still, surely, tale-bearer, travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-) faring man, × be weak, whirl.
Derivation
akin to H3212 (יָלַךְ); a primitive root;
Appears 1,546 times in Scripture
“And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.”
“The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.”
“Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.”
“Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.”
“And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.”
“So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.”
“So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.”
“Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.”
“Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.”
“The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
