אֹרַחʼôrach
way, path
Pronunciation: o'-rakh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H734
Meanings
1. highways, literal (Judges 5:6; Isaiah 33:8; Genesis 49:17)
2. figurative path, way, of course & fortunes of life (Job 33:11; Job 19:8; Psalms 139:3)
3. figurative way, of mode of living, or of character (Job 34:11; Psalms 119:9)
a. ways of (Psalms 25:10)
b. ways of (Psalms 25:4; Psalms 44:19; Psalms 119:15)
c. way, path of the violent (Psalms 17:4; Proverbs 22:25; Proverbs 4:14)
4. by metonym traveler, wayfarer (Job 31:32; 2 Samuel 12:4; 2 Samuel 6:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 58 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 18:11 Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children.
- Genesis 49:17 Dan will be a snake beside the road, a poisonous viper along the path that bites the horse’s hooves so its rider is thrown off.
- Judges 5:6 “In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, and in the days of Jael, people avoided the main roads, and travelers stayed on winding pathways.
- Job 6:18 The caravans turn aside to be refreshed, but there is nothing to drink, so they die.
- Job 6:19 The caravans from Tema search for this water; the travelers from Sheba hope to find it.
- Job 8:13 The same happens to all who forget God. The hopes of the godless evaporate.
See every passage
- Genesis 18:11, 49:17
- Judges 5:6
- Job 6:18, 6:19, 8:13, 13:27, 16:22, 19:8, 22:15, 30:12, 31:32, 33:11, 34:11
- Psalms 8:8, 16:11, 17:4, 19:5, 25:4, 25:10, 27:11, 44:18, 119:9, 119:15, 119:101, 119:104, 119:128, 142:3
- Proverbs 1:19, 2:8, 2:13, 2:15, 2:19, 2:20, 3:6, 4:14, 4:18, 5:6, 8:20, 9:15, 10:17, 12:28, 15:10, 15:19, 15:24, 17:23, 22:25
- Isaiah 2:3, 3:12, 26:7, 26:8, 30:11, 33:8, 40:14, 41:3
- Joel 2:7
- Micah 4:2
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).