Hebrew verb · H732
אָרַח
arachaw-rakh'
to journey
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼârach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H732is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H732
to travel
The King James renders it: go, wayfaring (man).
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
arach is rendered "to journey". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 19:17When 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?”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
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?”
Judges 19:17הָאֹרֵ֖חַ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he travels1
- and like a traveler1
- for the traveler1
- travelers1
- traveling I1
- who was traveling1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָרַר | arar | to curse | Uses63 |
| אָרַב | arab | to ambush | Uses41 |
| אָרַךְ | arak | to prolong | Uses34 |
| אָרַג | arag | to weave | Uses13 |
| אָרַשׂ | aras | to betroth | Uses11 |
| אָרַז | araz | reinforced | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- אָרְחִ֣י1
- אֹֽרְחִ֔ים1
- הָאֹרֵ֖חַ1
- וְאָרַ֣ח1
- וּכְאֹרֵ֖חַ1
- לָאֹרֵ֖חַ1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/R/Vqrmsa
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HRd/Vqrmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqcc/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HVqrmpa
Judges
one use
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?”
- הָאֹרֵ֖חַhaoreachthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who was traveling
2 Samuel
one use
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.”
- לָאֹרֵ֖חַlaoreachpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: for the traveler
Job
one use
He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
- וְאָרַ֣חvearachHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he travels
Psalms
one use
You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
- אָרְחִ֣יʾarechiverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: traveling I
Jeremiah
two uses
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.
- אֹֽרְחִ֔יםʾorechimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: travelers
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?
- וּכְאֹרֵ֖חַukheoreachconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and like a traveler
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 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.