Definition

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

Etymology

akin to H3212 (יָלַךְ); a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• (all) along
• apace
• behave (self)
• come
• (on) continually
• be conversant
• depart
• be eased
• enter
• exercise (self)
• follow
• forth
• forward
• get
• go (about
• abroad
• along
• away
• on
• out
• up and down)
• greater
• grow
• be wont to haunt
• lead
• march
• more and more
• move (self)
• needs
• pass (away)
• be at the point
• quite
• run (along)
• send
• speedily
• spread
• still
• surely
• tale-bearer
• travel(-ler)
• walk (abroad
• to and fro
• up and down
• to places)
• wander
• wax
• (way-) faring man
• be weak
• whirl

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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