Path
מַהְלֵךְStrong’s H4109mahlekh (mah-lekh)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mahlekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “journey of”, “journey your” and “passage of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.”
Meaning
- (Hiphil) walk, journey, going, place to walkwalk · journey · goings, free access
How it's translated
- a journey of 2
- journey your 1
- a passage of 1
- goings 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jonah 2
- Nehemiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Zechariah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 2:6And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
- Ezekiel 42:4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
- Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
- Jonah 3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Hebrew dictionary
מַהְלֵךְ mahlekh · path
1) (Hiphil) walk, journey, going, place to walk 1a) walk 1b) journey 1c) goings, free access
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “path” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ATH, noun
plural paths. [Gr. to tread.]
- A way beaten or trodden by the feet of man or beast, or made hard by wheels; that part of a highway on which animals or carriages ordinarily pass; applied to the ground only, and never to a paved street in a city.
- Any narrow way beaten by the foot.
- The way, course or track where a body moves in the atmosphere or in space; as the path of a planet or comet; the path of a meteor.
- A way or passage.
All definitions and other forms of “path”
- Course of life.“He marketh all my paths” Job 33:11
- Precepts; rules prescribed.
- Course of providential dealings; moral government.“All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant” Psalms 25:10
P'ATH, verb transitive
To make a path by treading; to beat a path as in snow.
P'ATH, verb intransitive
To walk abroad.
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.