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To go

הָלַךְStrong’s H1980

halakh (ha-lakh)

Appears in 1,348 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Halakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “went”, “go” and “come”. It appears in 1,348 verses of the Old Testament.

“Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.”
Daniel 9:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. To go, walk, come(Qal) · (Piel) · (Hithpael) · (Niphal) to lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk
  2. (P'al) to go, come, walk, be brought
How it's translated
  • and he went 183
  • go 148
  • and they went 89
  • come 65
  • going 62
  • to go 53
  • to walk 35
  • you will go 27

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 114
  • 1 Samuel 111
  • 1 Kings 106
  • Jeremiah 103
  • Judges 90
  • 2 Kings 88

37 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 1,348 verses, by book
Ezra 2
8:3110:6
Esther 3
2:114:169:4
Song of Solomon 7
2:102:112:134:66:17:97:11
Lamentations 6
1:51:61:183:24:185:18
Nahum 2
2:113:10
Habakkuk 3
1:63:53:11
Zephaniah 1
1:17
Malachi 2
2:63:14
Hebrew dictionary

הָלַךְ halakh · to go

: 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

הוּךְ hukh · to go

(P'al) to go, come, walk, be brought Aramaic of ha.lakh (הָלַךְ ": walk" H1980)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

GO, verb intransitive

preterit tense went; participle passive gone.

  1. In a general sense, to move; to pass; to proceed from one place, state or station to another; opposed to resting.“The mourners go about the streets” Ecclesiastes 12:5
  2. To walk; to move on the feet or step by step.
  3. To walk leisurely; not to run.
  4. To travel; to journey by land or water.
All definitions and other forms of “go”
  1. To depart; to move from a place; opposed to come.“I will let you go that ye may sacrifice” Exodus 8:28
  2. To proceed; to pass.
  3. To move; to pass in any manner or to any end; as, to go to bed; to go to dinner; to go to war.
  4. To move or pass customarily from place to place, denoting custom or practice.
  5. To proceed from one state or opinion to another; to change.
  6. To proceed in mental operations; to advance; to penetrate.
  7. To proceed or advance in accomplishing an end.
  8. To apply; to be applicable.
  9. To apply one's self.
  10. To have recourse to; as, to go to law.
  11. To be about to do; as, I was going to say.
  12. To pass; to be accounted in value.
  13. To circulate; to pass in report.
  14. To pass; to be received; to be accounted or understood to be.“And the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul” 1 Samuel 17:12
  15. To move, or be in motion; as a machine. [See No.1.]
  16. To move as fluid; to flow.
  17. To have a tendency.
  18. To be in compact or partnership.
  19. To be guided or regulated; to proceed by some principle or rule.
  20. To be pregnant.
  21. To pass; to be alienated in payment or exchange.
  22. To be loosed or released; to be freed from restraint.
  23. To be expended.
  24. To extend; to reach.
  25. to extend or lead in any direction.
  26. To proceed; to extend.
  27. To have effect; to extend in effect; to avail; to be of force or value.
  28. To extend in meaning or purport.
  29. To have a currency or use, as custom, opinion or manners.
  30. To contribute; to conduce; to concur; to be an ingredient; with to or into.
  31. To proceed; to be carried on.
  32. To proceed to final issue; to terminate; to succeed.
  33. To proceed in a train, or in consequences.
  34. To fare; to be in a good or ill state.
  35. To have a tendency or effect; to operate.
  36. In seamen's language, to tack; to turn the head of a ship.
  37. To be uttered, disclosed or published.
  38. To be in opposition; to be disagreeable.
  39. To err; to deviate from the right way.
  40. To pass away unnoticed; to omit.
  41. To fine or get in the conclusion.
  42. To fail; to come to nothing.
  43. To be swallowed or received, not rejected.
  44. To go freely; to be at liberty. John 10:9
  45. To die; to decease.
  46. To be discharged, as fire arms; to explode.
  47. To be put on, as a garment.
  48. To go on an expedition.
  49. To become extinct, as light or life; to expire.
  50. To become public.
  51. To examine; to view or review; as, to go over an account.
  52. To think over; to proceed or pass in mental operation.
  53. To change sides; to pass from one party to another.
  54. To revolt.
  55. To pass from one side to the other, as of a river.
  56. To execute; to accomplish; to perform thoroughly; to finish; as, to go through an undertaking.
  57. To suffer; to bear; to undergo; to sustain to the end; as, to go through a long sickness; to go through an operation.
  58. To side with; to be in party or design with.

GO'-BETWEEN, noun

[go and between.]

An interposer; one who transacts business between parties.

  1. A passing without notice; a thrusting away; a shifting off.

GO'-CART, noun

[go and cart.]

A machine with wheels, in which children learn to walk without danger of falling.

    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.