מַהֲלָךְmahălâk
walk, journey, going
Pronunciation: mah-hal-awk' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4109
Meanings
1. walk (Ezekiel 42:4)
2. journey (Nehemiah 2:6; Jonah 3:3; Jonah 3:4)
3. goings, i.e. free access (Zechariah 3:7)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Nehemiah 2:6 The king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked, “How long will you be gone? When will you return?” After I told him how long I would be gone, the king agreed to my request.
- Ezekiel 42:4 Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1⁄2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced north.
- Jonah 3:3 This time Jonah obeyed the Lord’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.
- Jonah 3:4 On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!”
- Zechariah 3:7 “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: If you follow my ways and carefully serve me, then you will be given authority over my Temple and its courtyards. I will let you walk among these others standing here.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).