darakh (to tread)

Meaning

To tread, bend, lead, march(Qal) · (Hiphil)

How it's translated

it will tread 4
you will tread 4
bent 3
he has bent 3
bend 3
he has trodden 2
they tread 2
and treads 2

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

Where it's used most

Psalms 10
Isaiah 9
Jeremiah 8
Deuteronomy 4
Job 4
Micah 4

18 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Numbers 24:17I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Deuteronomy 1:36Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
Deuteronomy 11:24Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Deuteronomy 11:25There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
Deuteronomy 33:29Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Joshua 1:3Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

All 59 verses, by book

Numbers 1: 24:17
Deuteronomy 4: 1:36 11:24 11:25 33:29
Joshua 2: 1:3 14:9
Judges 3: 5:21 9:27 20:43
1 Samuel 1: 5:5
1 Chronicles 2: 5:18 8:40
2 Chronicles 1: 14:8
Nehemiah 1: 13:15
Job 4: 9:8 22:15 24:11 28:8
Psalms 10: 7:12 11:2 25:5 25:9 37:14 58:7 64:3 91:13 107:7 119:35
Proverbs 1: 4:11
Isaiah 9: 5:28 11:15 16:10 21:15 42:16 48:17 59:8 63:2 63:3
Jeremiah 8: 9:3 25:30 46:9 48:33 50:14 50:29 51:3 51:33
Lamentations 3: 1:15 2:4 3:12
Amos 2: 4:13 9:13
Micah 4: 1:3 5:5 5:6 6:15
Habakkuk 2: 3:15 3:19
Zechariah 1: 9:13

Hebrew dictionary

דָּרַךְ darakh · to tread

1) to tread, bend, lead, march 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tread, march, march forth 1a2) to tread on, tread upon 1a3) to tread (a press) 1a4) to tread (bend) a bow 1a5) archer, bow-benders (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to tread, tread down 1b2) to tread (bend with the foot) a bow 1b3) to cause to go, lead, march, tread

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “tread” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TREAD, verb intransitive

tred. preterit tense trod; participle passive trod, troden. [Latin trudo.]

To set the foot.
To walk or go.“Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours” Deuteronomy 11:24
To walk with form or state.
To copulate, as fowls.

All definitions and other forms of “tread”

TREAD, verb transitive

tred. To step or walk on.

To press under the feet.
To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well trodden path.
To walk in a formal or stately manner.
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred, or to subdue. Psalms 44:5
To compress, as a fowl.

TREAD, noun

tred. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; as a nimble tread; cautious tread; doubtful tread

Way; track; path. [Little used.]
Compression of the male fowl.
Manner of stepping; as, a horse has a good tread

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.