Arach אָרַח
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| אָרַח | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | arach |
| Strong's number | H732 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Gloss | to journey |
| Occurrences | 6 in 6 verses |
| Most frequent in | Jeremiah (2) |
Arach (Hebrew אָרַח, Strong's H732) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to journey”. It occurs 6 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) to wander, journey, go, keep company with
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to journey, go
1a2) (part.)
1a2a) wandering, wayfarer, journeying
1a3) (subst.)
1a3a) wanderer, wayfarer, traveller
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to journey, go
1a2) (part.)
1a2a) wandering, wayfarer, journeying
1a3) (subst.)
1a3a) wanderer, wayfarer, traveller
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | man (2), wayfaring (1), goeth (1), men (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | traveler (2), he keeps (1), my path (1), i had a traveler's (1), like a traveler (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Arach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Judges
- Judges 19:17And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 12:4And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
Job
- Job 34:8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
Psalms
- Psalm 139:3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- Jeremiah 14:8O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).