Hebrew verb · H1869
דָּרַךְ
darakdaw-rak'
to tread
62 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dârak
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1869is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 18 of 39Old Testament books
- 57spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1869
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending)
The King James renders it: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
darak is rendered "to tread". It stands 62 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 24:17I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.
- The Greek text spells it fifty-seven different ways.
The first use
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.
Numbers 24:17דָּרַ֨ךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eighteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it will tread4
- you will tread4
- bent3
- he has bent3
- and they have bent2
- and treads2
- bend2
- he has trodden2
- lead me2
- they bend2
- they tread2
- and bend1
and 33 more, 62 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 62, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
57 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דָּרַ֨ךְ2
- דֹּ֣רְכֵי2
- וְדֹ֣רְכֵי2
- יִדְרֹ֥ךְ2
- תִּדְרֹ֧ךְ2
- אַדְרִיכֵ֑ם1
- דְּרוּכָ֔ה1
- דָ֝רַ֗ךְ1
- דָּרַ֣ךְ1
- דָּרַ֤ךְ1
- דֹּרֵ֣ךְ1
- דָּֽרַךְ־1
and 45 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular6HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular6HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HVqrmpc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular3HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVqp3cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Vqrmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HC/Vqrmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhp3cp/Sp3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVhv2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
Numbers
one use
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.
- דָּרַ֨ךְdarakhverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will march forth
Deuteronomy
four uses
except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”
- דָּֽרַךְ־darakh-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has trodden
Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
- תִּדְרֹ֧ךְtidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will tread
No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.
- תִּדְרְכוּ־tidrekhu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will tread
Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
- תִדְרֹֽךְ׃ סtidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will tread
Joshua
two uses
I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.
- תִּדְרֹ֧ךְtidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will tread
On that day Moses swore to me, saying, ‘Surely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’
- דָּרְכָ֤הdarekhahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it trod
Judges
three uses
The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!
- תִּדְרְכִ֥יtidrekhiverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you will march
And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
- וַֽיִּדְרְכ֔וּvaiyidrekhuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they trod
They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
- הִדְרִיכֻ֑הוּhidrikhuhuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they trod down him
1 Samuel
one use
That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.
- יִדְרְכוּ֩yidrekhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they tread
1 Chronicles
two uses
The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.
- וְדֹ֣רְכֵיvedorekheiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and bent
Ulam was his firstborn, Jeush second, and Eliphelet third. The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and they had many sons and grandsons—150 in all. All these were the descendants of Benjamin.
- דֹּ֣רְכֵיdorekheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bent
2 Chronicles
one use
Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.
- וְדֹ֣רְכֵיvedorekheiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and bend
Nehemiah
one use
In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
- דֹּֽרְכִֽים־dorekhim-verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: trod
Job
four uses
He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
- וְ֝דוֹרֵ֗ךְvedorekhconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and treads
Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?
- דָּרְכ֣וּdarekhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have trodden
They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
- דָּ֝רְכ֗וּdarekhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they tread
Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
- הִדְרִיכֻ֥הוּhidrikhuhuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they tread it
Psalms
ten uses
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- דָ֝רַ֗ךְdarakhverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has bent
For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
- יִדְרְכ֬וּןyidrekhunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they bend
Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
- הַדְרִ֘יכֵ֤נִיhadrikheniverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lead me
He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.
- יַדְרֵ֣ךְyadrekhverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he leads
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
- וְדָרְכ֪וּvedarekhuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they have bent
May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
- יִדְרֹ֥ךְyidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may he bend
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- דָּרְכ֥וּdarekhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they bend
You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
- תִּדְרֹ֑ךְtidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will tread
He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
- וַ֭יַּֽדְרִיכֵםvaiyadrikhemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he led them
Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
- הַ֭דְרִיכֵנִיhadrikheniverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lead me
Proverbs
one use
I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
- הִ֝דְרַכְתִּ֗יךָhidrakhtikhaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I led you
Isaiah
eleven uses
Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
- דְּרֻכ֑וֹתderukhotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: bent
The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
- וְהִדְרִ֖יךְvehidrikhHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make walk
Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
- יִדְרֹ֥ךְyidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will tread
- הַדֹּרֵ֖ךְhadorekhthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the treader
For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
- דְּרוּכָ֔הderukhahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: bent
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
- אַדְרִיכֵ֑םʾadrikhemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will guide them
Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
- מַדְרִֽיכֲךָ֖madrikhakhaverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: leads you
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
- דֹּרֵ֣ךְdorekhverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: treads
Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
- כְּדֹרֵ֥ךְkedorekhpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: like treads
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
- דָּרַ֣כְתִּיdarakhtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have trodden
- וְאֶדְרְכֵ֣םveedrekhemHC/Vqu1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I trod them
Jeremiah
nine uses
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- וַֽיַּדְרְכ֤וּvaiyadrekhuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they have bent
So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: ‘The LORD will roar from on high; He will raise His voice from His holy habitation. He will roar loudly over His pasture; like those who tread the grapes, He will call out with a shout against all the inhabitants of the earth.
- כְּדֹרְכִ֣יםkedorekhimpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: like tread
Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.
- דֹּ֥רְכֵיdorekheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of bend
Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
- יִדְרֹ֣ךְyidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone will tread
Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.
- דֹּ֣רְכֵיdorekheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bend
Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
- דֹּ֨רְכֵיdorekheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bend
Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
- יִדְרֹ֤ךְyidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he bend
- הַדֹּרֵךְ֙hadorekhthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the bending
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
- הִדְרִיכָ֑הּhidrikhahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: someone treads down it
Lamentations
three uses
The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.
- דָּרַ֣ךְdarakhverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has trodden
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
- דָּרַ֨ךְdarakhverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has bent
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
- דָּרַ֤ךְdarakhverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has bent
Amos
two uses
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
- וְדֹרֵ֖ךְvedorekhconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and treads
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
- וְדֹרֵ֥ךְvedorekhconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and treader of
Micah
four uses
For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
- וְדָרַ֖ךְvedarakhHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will tread
And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.
- יִדְרֹךְ֙yidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will tread
And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.
- יִדְרֹ֖ךְyidrokhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will tread
You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- תִדְרֹֽךְ־tidrokh-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will tread
Habakkuk
two uses
You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
- דָּרַ֥כְתָּdarakhtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you trod
GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.
- יַדְרִכֵ֑נִיyadrikheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he makes tread me
Zechariah
one use
For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
- דָרַ֨כְתִּיdarakhtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will bend
The letters
Gematria 224· 704 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
