Way
אֹ֫רַחStrong’s H0734orach (o-rach)
Appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Orach is the Hebrew word usually translated “paths of”, “path of” and “path”. It appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.”
Meaning
- Way, pathpath, road · the path, way, passing of life (fig.) · way of living (fig.) · traveller, wayfarer (meton)
How it's translated
- paths of 11
- path of 6
- a path 5
- paths your 4
- path 3
- paths their 3
- in path of 3
- roads 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 19
- Psalms 14
- Job 11
- Isaiah 8
- Genesis 2
- Judges 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
- Judges 5:6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
- Job 6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
- Job 6:19The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
- Job 8:13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
- Job 13:27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
All 57 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֹ֫רַח orach · way
1) way, path 1a) path, road 1b) the path, way, passing of life (fig.) 1c) way of living (fig.) 1d) traveller, wayfarer (meton) Aramaic equivalent: o.rach (אֹ֫רַח "way" H0735)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “way” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAY, noun
[G., Latin ]
- Literally, a passing; hence, a passage; the place of passing; hence, a road of any kind; a highway; a private road; a lane; a street; any place for the passing of men; cattle or other animals; a word of very comprehensive signification.
- Length of space; as a great way; a little way
- Course; direction of motion or travel.
- Passage; room for passing.
All definitions
- Course, or regular course.
- Tendency to any meaning or act.
- Sphere of observation.
- Manner of doing any thing; method; means of doing.
- Method; scheme of management.
- Manner of thinking or behavior; particular turn of opinion; determination or humor.
- Manner; mode.
- Method; manner of practice.
- Method or plan of life and conduct.“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace” Proverbs 3:17“All flesh had corrupted his way” Genesis 6:12
- Course; process of things, good or bad.
- Right method to act or know.
- General scheme of acting.
- Ways, plural the timbers on which a ship is launched.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.