Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H1980: הָלַךְ

hâlak · pronounced haw-lak' · “to go: went”

Definition

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

KJV translates it as: (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.

Word origin: akin to H3212 (יָלַךְ); a primitive root;

Extended definition

: went/go[away]
1) to go, walk, come
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go away
1a2) to die, live, manner of life (fig.)
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to walk
1b2) to walk (fig.)
1c) (Hithpael)
1c1) to traverse
1c2) to walk about
1d) (Niphal) to lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H1980 is translated

  • go ×228
  • he went ×203
  • they went ×104
  • come ×45
  • walk ×44
  • ! ×43
  • you will go ×39
  • he walked ×34
  • i will go ×31
  • she went ×27
  • they walked ×23
  • they will go ×23

Bible verses with H1980 (hâlak)

Hâlak appears in 1,347 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • Genesis 2:14

    And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

  • Genesis 3:8

    And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

  • Genesis 3:14

    And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

  • Genesis 4:8

    And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

  • Genesis 5:22

    And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Genesis 5:24

    And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

  • Genesis 6:9

    These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

  • Genesis 7:18

    And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

  • Genesis 8:3

    And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

  • Genesis 8:5

    And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

  • Genesis 9:23

    And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

  • Genesis 11:31

    And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

  • Genesis 12:1

    Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

  • Genesis 12:4

    So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

  • Genesis 12:5

    And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

  • Genesis 12:9

    And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

  • Genesis 12:19

    Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

  • Genesis 13:3

    And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;

  • Genesis 13:5

    And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

  • Genesis 13:17

    Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

  • Genesis 14:11

    And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

  • Genesis 14:12

    And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

  • Genesis 14:24

    Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

  • Genesis 15:2

    And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

  • Genesis 16:8

    And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

All 1,347 references (first 400)

Words derived from H1980

הָלִיךְ H1978

hâlîyk — step

הֲלַךְ H1981

hălak — to go

הֵלֶךְ H1982

hêlek — traveller

יָלַךְ H3212

yâlak — to walk

מַהְלֵךְ H4108

mahlêk — path

מַהֲלָךְ H4109

mahălâk — journey

תַּהֲלֻכָה H8418

tahălukâh — procession