Aramaic

Way

אֹ֫רַחStrong’s H0735

orach (o-rach)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Orach is the Aramaic word usually translated “ways his” and “ways your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.”

Daniel 4:37 KJV

Meaning

Way, path, course of life

How it's translated

and ways his 1
ways your 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 2

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Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

Aramaic dictionary

אֹ֫רַח orach · way

way, path, course of life Aramaic of o.rach (אֹ֫רַח "way" H0734)

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.