אָרַחʼârach
wander, journey, go
Pronunciation: aw-rakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H732
Meanings
Qal
1. journey, go (Job 34:8; Psalms 1:1)
2. wandering, wayfaring, journeying (Judges 19:17; 2 Samuel 12:4; Jeremiah 14:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Judges 19:17 When he saw the travelers sitting in the town square, he asked them where they were from and where they were going.
- 2 Samuel 12:4 One day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man. But instead of killing an animal from his own flock or herd, he took the poor man’s lamb and killed it and prepared it for his guest.”
- Job 34:8 He chooses evil people as companions. He spends his time with wicked men.
- Psalms 139:3 You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
- Jeremiah 9:2 Oh, that I could go away and forget my people and live in a travelers’ shack in the desert. For they are all adulterers— a pack of treacherous liars.
- Jeremiah 14:8 O Hope of Israel, our Savior in times of trouble, why are you like a stranger to us? Why are you like a traveler passing through the land, stopping only for the night?
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).