דֶּ֫רֶךְ
way
also: road, distance, journey, manner fuller range ↓
H1870
Strong's Hebrew
derek
Transliteration
/deh'-rek/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
712
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
way, road, distance, journey, manner
- road, way, path
- journey
- direction
- manner, habit, way
- of course of life (figuratively)
- of moral character (figuratively)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
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Genesis 12 verses
- Genesis 24:27 בַּ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ prep det + n c bs He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
- Genesis 28:20 בַּ/דֶּ֤רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
- Genesis 35:3 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
- Genesis 38:16 הַ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you:" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
- Genesis 38:21 הַ/דָּ֑רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
- Genesis 42:25 לַ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.
- Genesis 42:38 בַּ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ prep det + n c bs He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
- Genesis 45:21 לַ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
- Genesis 45:23 לַ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
- Genesis 45:24 בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."
- Genesis 48:7 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep det + n c bs prep + n c bs cs As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
- Genesis 49:17 דֶ֔רֶךְ n c bs Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.
Exodus 7 verses
- Exodus 4:24 בַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him.
- Exodus 13:21 הַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Exodus 18:8 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
- Exodus 18:20 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
- Exodus 23:20 בַּ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
- Exodus 32:8 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
- Exodus 33:3 בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."
Numbers 9 verses
- Numbers 9:10 בְ/דֶ֨רֶךְ prep + n c bs "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
- Numbers 9:13 וּ/בְ/דֶ֣רֶךְ conj + prep + n c bs But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Numbers 21:4 דֶּ֣רֶךְ בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ n c bs cs prep det + n c bs They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
- Numbers 22:22 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
- Numbers 22:23 בַּ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ הַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ הַ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.
- Numbers 22:26 דֶּ֥רֶךְ n c bs The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
- Numbers 22:31 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
- Numbers 22:32 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:
- Numbers 22:34 בַּ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.
Deuteronomy 27 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:22 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.
- Deuteronomy 1:31 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.
- Deuteronomy 1:33 בַּ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ בַּ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ prep det + n c bs prep det + n c bs who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
- Deuteronomy 2:27 בַּ/דֶּ֥רֶךְ בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs prep det + n c bs Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
- Deuteronomy 5:33 הַ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
- Deuteronomy 6:7 בַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
- Deuteronomy 8:2 הַ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
- Deuteronomy 9:12 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Deuteronomy 9:16 הַ/דֶּ֕רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 11:19 בַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
- Deuteronomy 11:28 הַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
- Deuteronomy 13:5 הַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 14:24 הַ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs If the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
- Deuteronomy 17:16 בַּ/דֶּ֥רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.
- Deuteronomy 19:3 הַ/דֶּרֶךְ֒ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.
- Deuteronomy 19:6 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
- Deuteronomy 22:4 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
- Deuteronomy 22:6 בַּ/דֶּ֜רֶךְ prep det + n c bs If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
- Deuteronomy 23:4 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
- Deuteronomy 24:9 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 25:17 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 25:18 בַּ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ prep det + n c bs how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.
- Deuteronomy 27:18 בַּ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 28:7 בְּ/דֶ֤רֶךְ דְרָכִ֖ים prep + n c bs n c bp Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you: they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 בְּ/דֶ֤רֶךְ דְרָכִ֖ים prep + n c bs n c bp Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:68 בַּ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ prep det + n c bs Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 הַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Joshua 8 verses
- Joshua 2:22 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs They went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.
- Joshua 3:4 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs prep det + n c bs Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
- Joshua 5:4 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs This is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.
- Joshua 5:5 בַּ/דֶּ֛רֶךְ prep det + n c bs For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised.
- Joshua 5:7 בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs Their children, whom he raised up in their place, them did Joshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
- Joshua 9:11 לַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.
- Joshua 9:13 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
- Joshua 24:17 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs for Yahweh our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed;
Judges 4 verses
- Judges 2:17 הַ/דֶּ֜רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; [but] they didn't do so.
- Judges 4:9 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs She said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
- Judges 5:10 דֶּ֖רֶךְ n c bs Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.
- Judges 9:25 בַּ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs The men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
Ruth 1 verse
1 Samuel 10 verses
- 1 Samuel 4:13 דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ n c bs When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
- 1 Samuel 6:12 בַּ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ prep det + n c bs n c bs cs The cattle took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
- 1 Samuel 15:2 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 15:18 בְּ/דָ֑רֶךְ prep + n c bs and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'
- 1 Samuel 15:20 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
- 1 Samuel 24:3 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs He came to the sheep pens by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.
- 1 Samuel 24:7 בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
- 1 Samuel 24:19 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.
- 1 Samuel 26:3 הַ/דָּ֑רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
- 1 Samuel 28:22 בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way.
2 Samuel 5 verses
- 2 Samuel 11:10 מִ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ prep + n c bs When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Haven't you come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?
- 2 Samuel 13:30 בַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
- 2 Samuel 13:34 מִ/דֶּ֛רֶךְ prep + n c bs But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side behind him.
- 2 Samuel 15:23 דֶ֖רֶךְ n c bs All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
- 2 Samuel 16:13 בַּ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
1 Kings 16 verses
- 1 Kings 8:36 הַ/דֶּ֥רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
- 1 Kings 8:44 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ דֶּ֤רֶךְ prep det + n c bs n c bs cs If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
- 1 Kings 11:29 בַּ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ prep det + n c bs It happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; now [Ahijah] had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.
- 1 Kings 13:9 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs for so was it charged me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.
- 1 Kings 13:10 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep + n c bs prep det + n c bs So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he came to Bethel.
- 1 Kings 13:12 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
- 1 Kings 13:17 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.
- 1 Kings 13:24 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs prep det + n c bs When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him: and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.
- 1 Kings 13:25 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
- 1 Kings 13:26 הַ/דֶּרֶךְ֒ ptcl def.art + n c bs When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him.
- 1 Kings 13:28 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.
- 1 Kings 18:6 בְּ/דֶ֤רֶךְ בְּ/דֶרֶךְ prep + n c bs prep + n c bs So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
- 1 Kings 18:7 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?
- 1 Kings 18:27 דֶ֣רֶךְ n c bs It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.
- 1 Kings 19:7 הַ/דָּֽרֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
- 1 Kings 20:38 הַ/דָּ֑רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
2 Kings 8 verses
- 2 Kings 2:23 בַ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ prep det + n c bs He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead.
- 2 Kings 3:8 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs He said, Which way shall we go up? He answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.
- 2 Kings 6:19 הַ/דֶּרֶךְ֮ ptcl def.art + n c bs Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. He led them to Samaria.
- 2 Kings 7:15 הַ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs They went after them to the Jordan: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
- 2 Kings 10:12 בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing-house of the shepherds in the way,
- 2 Kings 19:28 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
- 2 Kings 19:33 בַּ/דֶּ֥רֶךְ prep det + n c bs By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 21:21 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them:
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 6:27 הַ/דֶּ֥רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
- 2 Chronicles 6:34 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ prep det + n c bs n c bs cs If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
- 2 Chronicles 18:23 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?
Ezra 3 verses
- Ezra 8:21 דֶּ֣רֶךְ n c bs Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
- Ezra 8:22 בַּ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.
- Ezra 8:31 הַ/דָּֽרֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 9:12 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
- Nehemiah 9:19 בְּ/הַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep + ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
Job 9 verses
- Job 12:24 דָֽרֶךְ n c bs He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
- Job 21:29 דָ֑רֶךְ n c bs Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,
- Job 23:10 דֶּ֣רֶךְ n c bs But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
- Job 24:4 מִ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep + n c bs They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
- Job 28:26 וְ֝/דֶ֗רֶךְ conj + n c bs When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;
- Job 31:7 הַ֫/דָּ֥רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,
- Job 38:19 הַ֭/דֶּרֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,
- Job 38:24 הַ֭/דֶּרֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs By what way is the lightning distributed, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?
- Job 38:25 וְ֝/דֶ֗רֶךְ conj + n c bs Who has cut a channel for the flood water, Or the path for the thunderstorm;
Psalms 18 verses
- Psalms 2:12 דֶ֗רֶךְ n c bs Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
- Psalms 25:8 בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs Good and upright is Yahweh, Therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
- Psalms 25:12 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
- Psalms 32:8 בְּ/דֶֽרֶךְ prep + n c bs I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Psalms 36:4 דֶּ֣רֶךְ n c bs He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good; He doesn't abhor evil.
- Psalms 37:14 דָֽרֶךְ n c bs The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To kill those who are upright in the way.
- Psalms 50:23 דֶּ֑רֶךְ n c bs Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, And prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."
- Psalms 80:12 דָֽרֶךְ n c bs Why have you broken down its walls, So that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
- Psalms 89:41 דָ֑רֶךְ n c bs All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- Psalms 101:2 בְּ/דֶ֬רֶךְ prep + n c bs I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
- Psalms 101:6 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, He will serve me.
- Psalms 102:23 בַ/דֶּ֥רֶךְ prep det + n c bs He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
- Psalms 107:4 דָּ֑רֶךְ n c bs They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
- Psalms 107:7 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city to live in.
- Psalms 107:40 דָֽרֶךְ n c bs He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
- Psalms 110:7 בַּ/דֶּ֣רֶךְ prep det + n c bs He will drink of the brook in the way; Therefore he will lift up his head.
- Psalms 119:1 דָ֑רֶךְ n c bs Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law.
- Psalms 143:8 דֶּֽרֶךְ n c bs Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, For I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to you.
Proverbs 18 verses
- Proverbs 1:15 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,
- Proverbs 2:12 מִ/דֶּ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men who speak perverse things;
- Proverbs 7:19 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
- Proverbs 8:2 דָ֑רֶךְ n c bs On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she stands.
- Proverbs 8:13 וְ/דֶ֣רֶךְ conj + n c bs The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
- Proverbs 9:15 דָ֑רֶךְ n c bs To call to those who pass by, Who go straight on their ways,
- Proverbs 11:20 דָֽרֶךְ n c bs Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, But those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
- Proverbs 13:6 דָּ֑רֶךְ n c bs Righteousness guards the way of integrity, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
- Proverbs 14:12 דֶּ֣רֶךְ דַּרְכֵי n c bs n c bp cs There is a way which seems right to a man, But in the end it leads to death.
- Proverbs 15:9 דֶּ֣רֶךְ n c bs The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But he loves him who follows after righteousness.
- Proverbs 15:19 דֶּ֣רֶךְ n c bs The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, But the path of the upright is a highway.
- Proverbs 16:25 דֶּ֣רֶךְ דַּרְכֵי n c bs n c bp cs There is a way which seems right to a man, But in the end it leads to death.
- Proverbs 16:29 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs A man of violence entices his neighbor, And leads him in a way that is not good.
- Proverbs 23:19 בַּ/דֶּ֣רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Listen, my son, and be wise, And keep your heart on the right path!
- Proverbs 26:13 בַּ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"
- Proverbs 28:6 דְּ֝רָכַ֗יִם n c bd Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, Than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
- Proverbs 28:18 דְּ֝רָכַ֗יִם n c bd Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
- Proverbs 29:27 דָּֽרֶךְ n c bs A dishonest man detests the righteous, And the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 10:3 בַּ/דֶּ֛רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 בַּ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets:
Isaiah 14 verses
- Isaiah 30:11 דֶ֔רֶךְ n c bs get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
- Isaiah 30:21 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it; when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
- Isaiah 35:8 וָ/דֶ֗רֶךְ וְ/דֶ֤רֶךְ דֶּ֛רֶךְ conj + n c bs conj + n c bs cs n c bs A highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for for him who walks in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
- Isaiah 37:29 בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep det + n c bs Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
- Isaiah 37:34 בַּ/דֶּ֥רֶךְ prep det + n c bs By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.
- Isaiah 42:16 בְּ/דֶ֨רֶךְ֙ prep + n c bs I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 43:16 דָּ֑רֶךְ n c bs Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
- Isaiah 43:19 דֶּ֔רֶךְ n c bs Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
- Isaiah 48:17 בְּ/דֶ֥רֶךְ prep + n c bs Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
- Isaiah 49:9 דְּרָכִ֣ים n c bp saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
- Isaiah 49:11 לַ/דָּ֑רֶךְ prep det + n c bs I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
- Isaiah 51:10 דֶּ֖רֶךְ n c bs Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
- Isaiah 57:14 דָ֑רֶךְ מִ/דֶּ֥רֶךְ n c bs prep + n c bs cs He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
- Isaiah 65:2 הַ/דֶּ֣רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Jeremiah 12 verses
- Jeremiah 2:17 בַּ/דָּֽרֶךְ prep det + n c bs Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
- Jeremiah 3:2 דְּרָכִים֙ n c bp Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
- Jeremiah 6:16 דְּרָכִ֨ים דֶ֤רֶךְ n c bp n c bs cs Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].
- Jeremiah 6:25 וּ/בַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ conj + prep det + n c bs Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.
- Jeremiah 7:23 הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
- Jeremiah 18:15 בְּ/דַרְכֵי/הֶם֙ דֶּ֖רֶךְ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c bs For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
- Jeremiah 31:9 בְּ/דֶ֣רֶךְ prep + n c bs They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Jeremiah 31:21 דֶּ֣רֶךְ n c bs Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
- Jeremiah 32:39 וְ/דֶ֣רֶךְ conj + n c bs and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
- Jeremiah 42:3 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.
- Jeremiah 48:19 דֶּ֛רֶךְ n c bs Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
- Jeremiah 50:5 דֶּ֖רֶךְ n c bs They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Lamentations 2 verses
- Lamentations 1:12 דֶרֶךְ֒ n c bs Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
- Lamentations 2:15 דֶ֔רֶךְ n c bs All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Ezekiel 11 verses
- Ezekiel 16:25 דֶּ֗רֶךְ n c bs You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
- Ezekiel 16:31 דֶּ֔רֶךְ n c bs in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
- Ezekiel 21:19 דְּרָכִ֗ים דֶּֽרֶךְ n c bp n c bs cs Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
- Ezekiel 21:20 דֶּ֣רֶךְ n c bs You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
- Ezekiel 21:21 הַ/דֶּ֗רֶךְ הַ/דְּרָכִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bp For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
- Ezekiel 23:13 דֶּ֥רֶךְ n c bs I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
- Ezekiel 42:1 הַ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.
- Ezekiel 42:11 וְ/דֶ֨רֶךְ֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ conj + n c bs n c bs cs The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
- Ezekiel 42:12 דֶּ֣רֶךְ דָּ֑רֶךְ דֶּ֗רֶךְ דֶּ֥רֶךְ n c bs cs n c bs n c bs n c bs cs According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
- Ezekiel 47:2 דֶּֽרֶךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ דֶּ֖רֶךְ n c bs cs n c bs cs n c bs Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
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“way” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun דרך (derek). Beyond “way” it also covers “road”, “distance”, and “journey” — see its full sense range. With 626 verses in 32 books, it is one of the most common word in the Hebrew Bible. First canonically at Genesis 3:24, it enters the text early. It clusters with דרך and מדרך under a shared root. See the sense tree, 626-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
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Strong's · 1890
along
Modern gloss
way
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H1870 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 626
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 626 distinct verses.
- 32 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 32 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #72
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 72 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 626 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 317 verses · 51%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 204 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 105 verses · 17%
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- King James Version: Way 377×, Ways 106×, Toward 21×
- American Standard Version: Way 354×, Ways 97×, Toward 15×
- Berean Standard Bible: Way 182×, Ways 160×, Road 47×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Way 199×, Ways 128×, Way of 112×
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Renders H1870 across 701 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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Renders H1870 across 652 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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Renders H1870 across 737 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 67 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
14 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 14 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. way, road, path Gn 35:3 (E) 38:16, 21 (both J) 48:7 (P), 49:17 (J; poem) Lv 26:22 (H, only here in Lv) Nu 22:22, 23(×3), 31, 34 (all JE) Dt 6:7; 22:4, 6; 23:5; 24:9; 25:17, 18 Jos 3:4 (D) Ru 1:7 1 S 4:13 (on text cf. Dr) 15:2; 24;4 2 S 16:13 1 K 13:9, 10(×2), 12, 17, 24(×2), 25, 26, 28; 18:6(×2), 7; 20:38 2 K 2:23; 3:8; 6:19; 7:15, 19:28, 33 = Is 37:29, 34, Ho 6:9; 13:7 Is 43:16, 19; 49:9, 11; 51:10; 57:14(×2) Je 6:25 La 1:5 Ez 21:24, 25; 42:11, 12 Jo 2:7, Ezr 8:22, 31 Jb 12:24 ψ 107:40; 110:7 Pr 7:8; 8:2; 26:13 Ec 10:3; 12:5; cstr. way of (often = to, toward) ד׳ עֵץ הַחַיִּים Gn 3:24 (J) ד׳ שׁוּר 16:7 (J) ד׳ אֶרֶץ פְּלִשְׁתִּים Ex 13:7 (E) ד׳ הַבָּשָׁן Nu 21:33 (JE); cf. Dt 1:2, 19; 3:1 Jos 2:7 (JE) 12:3 1 S 6:9, 12; 13:17, 18(×2); 17:52 2 K 3:20 Is 15:5 Je 2:18(×2); 50:5 Ez 47:15; 48:1; ד׳ הַמִּדְבָּר (of different ways) Ex 13:18 (E) Jos 8:15 (JE) Ju 20:42, cf. Dt 2:8 2 S 2:24 2 K 3:8; ד׳ אֶת־הַמִּדְבָּר 2 S 15:23 is corrupt; read ד׳ הַזַּיִת אֲשֶׁר בַּמִּדְבָּר 𝔊L Dr cf. We: the way of the olive-tree which, etc.; ד׳ הָעֲרָבָה Dt 2:8 and (with diff. reference) 2 S 4:7 2 K 25:4 = Je 52:7, Je 39:4; ד׳ הַכִּכָּר 2 S 18:23; ד׳ יַם־סוּף Nu 14:25; 21:4 (JE Dt 1:40; 2:1; often of gateway, as ד׳ הַשַּׁעַר 2 S 15:2 cf. 2 K 11:19; 25:4 = Je 52:7; Ez 9:2; 43:4; 44:1, 4; 46:9(×5); 47:2; ד׳ אוּלָם הַשַּׁעַר 44:3; 46:2, 8; ד׳ בֵּית הַגָּן 2 K 9:27, ד׳ גַּן־הַמֶּלֶךְ Je 39:4; ד׳ הַיָּם Is 8:23 (cf. Comm. & SchumacherJaulân 63 and PEF Apr. 1889, 78); ד׳ מְבוֹא הַסּוּסִים 2 K 11:16; sq. ָה loc. Gn 35:19 (E), 38:14 (J) 48:7 (P; read אפרתה Ol); ד׳ הַמֶּלֶךְ נֵלֵךְ †Nu 20:17; 21:22 (both JE; Arabic درب السلطان of diff. highroads, cf. Seetzeni. 61, 132, ii. 336 RobBR iii. 141 Di; = מְסִלָּה 20:19) i.e. the highway, used by king with his army; cf. ‖ בַּדֶּרֶךְ בַּדֶּרֶךְ Dt 2:27; i.e. straight (or steadily) along the way; in particular of path, way, in which God moves †בַּיָּם דַּרְכֶּ֑ךָ ψ 77:20 (‖ וּשְׁבִילְיךָ֯ בְּמַיִם רַבִּים); וּבִשְׂעָרָה דַּרְכּוֹ Na 1:3; cf. בַּמִּדְבָּר פַּנּוּ ד׳ י׳ Is 40:3 (‖ יַשְּׁרוּ בָּֽעֲרָבָה מְסִלָּה לאלהינו); also Mal 3:1, comp. Is 43:16, 19 (way made by י׳) & 51:10; path of lightning Jb 28:26; 38:25; of light 38:19, 24, of camel (בִּכְרָה) Je 2:33, of locusts Jo 2:7 (pl.); v. further the four wonderful things Pr 30:19 the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a damsel (i.e. no trace is left in any case); cf. also v 20 כֵּן דֶּרֶךְ אִשָּׁה מְנָאָ֑פֶת; figure of death אָנֹכִי הוֹלֵךְ הַיּוֹם בְּדֶרֶךְ כָּל־הָאָרֶץ Jos 23:14 I am going to-day in the way of all the earth (D); so also 1 K 2:2 (cf. Gn 19:31 4 a). e.g. Genesis 35:3
- 2. journey Gn 24:21, 40, 42, 56 (all J) Nu 9:10, 13 (P) Jos 9:11, 13 (both JE) 1 K 18:27, 19:7 רַב מִמְּךָ הַדּ׳; לַעֲשׂוֹת ד׳ Ju 17:8; ד׳ בְּאֵר שָׁ֑בַע Am 8:14 (journey of—to—Beersheba cf. Hi St; but text dub., 𝔊 ὁ θεός, cf. Gunning; HoffmZAW 1883, 123 proposes דֹּדְךָ, We בְּאֵרְךָ cf. BuThLz 1892, 62); דֶּרֶךְ חֹל 1 S 21:6 a common (not sacred) journey; especially c. temp. modif. ד׳ שְׁלֹשֶׁת יָמִים Gn 30:36 (J) Ex 3:18; 5:3; 8:23 Nu 10:33(×2) (all JE), 33:8 (P) cf. also Gn 31:23 (E) Nu 11:31(×2) (JE), 1 K 19:4, 2 K 3:9; go one’s way הָלַךְ לְדַרְכּוֹ †Gn 19:2 (J), 32:2 (E), 33:16 (J) Nu 24:25 Jos 2:16 (both JE), Ju 18:26; 19:27 1 S 1:18; 26:25; 30:2 1 K 1:49 Je 28:11, vid. הלך; also הָפַךְ לְד׳ †1 S 25:12, & (fig.) פָּנָה לְד׳ †Is 53:6 (so 56:11 5 infr.); of זוֹנָה, fig. of Israel, וַתְּפַזְּרִי אֶת־דְּרָכַיִךְ לַזָּרִים Je 3:13. e.g. Genesis 24:21
- 3. of direction, almost or quite = toward, 1 K 8:44, 48 = 2 Ch 6:34, 38 pray toward the city, etc.; 18:43 look toward the sea; especially in Ezek. of looking, going, etc. ד׳ צָפוֹנָה Ez 8:5, 5 cf. 21:2; 40:6; cstr. ד׳ הַקָּדִים Ez 40:10 (del. 𝔊 HiCo) v 22 43:1; ד׳ הַצָּפוֹן 40:20 cf. ד׳ הַדָּרוֹם v 24(×2), ד׳ הַיָּם 41:12, ד׳ הֶחָצֵר 42:7 etc. (c. 28 times Ez); (v. also מִדֶּרֶךְ Ez 9:2 cf. 43:2; 44:3; on ד׳ אַמָּה אֶחָת Ez 42:4 v. VB Co Da) cf. לֹא־יִפְנֶה דֶּרֶךְ בְּרָמִים Jb 24:18. e.g. 1 Kings 8:44
- 4. way, manner:
- a. usage ד׳ כָּל־הָאָרֶץ Gn 19:31 (J; cf. also Jos 23:14 1 K 2:2 supr.). e.g. Genesis 19:31
- b. = customary experience, or condition ד׳ נָשִׁים Gn 31:35 (E). e.g. Genesis 31:35
- c. ד׳ מִצְרַיִם Am 4:10 the manner of Egypt, i.e. as was done in Egypt; Is 10:24, 26 e.g. Amos 4:10
- d. habit of animals, ants Pr 6:6 (pl.) e.g. Proverbs 6:6
- 5. fig. of course of life, or action, undertakings, etc. לֹא תַצְלִיחַ אֶת־דְּרָכֶיךָ Dt 28:29 cf. Jos 1:8 (D) 1 S 18:14; 2 S 22:33; = ψ 18:33; Jb 3:23; 8:19; 17:9; 22:28; 24:23; 31:4; 34:21; ψ 10:5; 35:6; 37:5, 7, 23; 91:11; 102:24; 119:37; 128:1; 139:3; 146:9; Pr 2:8; 3:6, 23; 11:5; 20:24; 29:27; 31:3; Is 40:27; 45:13; 48:15; 55:8, 9; Je 2:36; 10:23; 12:1; 23:12; La 3:9, 11; Ho 2:8; 9:8; 10:13; Am 2:7 (ד׳ עְנָוִים); thrice (Ch) in summary of a king’s life, of Abijah וּדְרָכָיו וּדְבָרָיו 2 Ch 13:22; of Jotham וְכָל־מִלְחֲמֹתָיו וּדְרָכָיו 2 Ch 27:7; of Ahaz וְכָל־דְּרָכָיו הָרִאשֹׁנִים וְהָאַחֲרוֹנִים 2 Ch 28:26; ד׳ אֹרְחֹתֶיךָ Is 3:12 cf. also Is 30:11 and 57:18; = gain Is 56:11, pleasure, etc. Is 58:13. e.g. Deuteronomy 28:29
- 6.
- a. of moral action and character הִשְׁחִית כָּל־בָּשָׂר אֶת־דַּרְכּוֹ עַל־הָאָרֶץ Gn 6:12 (P); cf. Je 3:21; יִשְׁמְרוּ אֶת־דַּרְכָּם 1 K 2:4; 8:25 = 2 Ch 6:16; cf. v 39 = 2 Ch 6:30; הֵכִין דְּרָכָיו לִפְנֵי י׳ 2 Ch 27:6; ψ 5:9; 39:2; 49:14; 50:23; 119:5, 26, 59, 168 Pr 4:26; 5:8, 21; 10:9; 14:2, 8, 12; 16:2, 7, 9, 17, 25; 19:3, 16; 21:2, 29 Je 2:33; 6:27; 7:3, 5; 16:17; 17:10; 18:11, 15; 26:13; 32:19(×2) La 3:40 Ez 7:3, 8, 9, 27; 14:22, 23; 18:25, 29, 30; 24:14; 28:15; 33:17, 20; 36:19 Hg 1:5, 7 Zc 1:6; דַּרְכֵי לִבְּךָ Ec 11:9 cf. Is 57:17 (& Je 32:39c. infr.) e.g. Genesis 6:12
- b. of duty (commanded by י׳, etc.) הַדּ׳ יֵלְכוּ בָּהּ Ex 18:20 (E) cf. 32:8 (JE) Dt 9:12, 16; 13:6; 31:29 Ju 2:17 Jb 31:7 ψ 25:8, 12; 32:8; 119:1; 143:8 Pr 21:16; 22:6; 23:19 Is 30:21; 48:17 Je 7:23 Mal 2:8; so too, of wisdom דְּרָכֶיהָ דַרְכֵי־נֹעַם Pr 3:17, ד׳ חָכְמָה 4:11; 8:32; cf. 23:26; ד׳ בִּינָה 9:6 cf. Is 40:14. e.g. Exodus 18:20
- c. specif.: in good sense ד׳ הָטּוֹבָה וְהַיְשָׁרָה 1 S 12:23 1 K 8:36 = 2 Ch 6:27; cf. Pr 16:31 Je 6:16; תֹּם דְּרָכֶיךָ Jb 4:6 cf. 22:3 Pr 13:6; דְּרָכָיו (i.e. of light) Jb 24:13 (‖ נְתִיבֹתָיו); ד׳ צַדִּיקִים ψ 1:6, ד׳ טוֹבִים Pr 2:20, יִשְׁרֵי־דָ֑רֶךְ ψ 37:14, תְּמִימֵי דָ֑רֶךְ Pr 11:20 ψ 119:1; ד׳ תָּמִים ψ 101:2, 6, ד׳ אֱמוּנָה ψ 119:30, ד׳ שָׁלוֹם Is 59:8; ד׳ עוֹלָם ψ 139:24, ד׳ חַיִּים Pr 6:23, cf. 12:28 Je 21:8 (opp. ד׳ המות v. infr.); without modifier 1 S 8:3, 5 Jb 13:15; 23:10, לֵב אֶחָד וְד׳ אֶחָד Je 32:39; cf. also a. supr.; especially cstr. before names of good kings 1 K 22:43 2 K 22:2 2 Ch 11:17; 20:32; 21:12(×2) (pl.) so 34:2; cf. דַּרְכֵי דָּוִיד הָרִאשֹׁנִים 2 Ch 17:3 the first ways of David; also דַּרְכֵי עַמִּי Je 12:16. e.g. 1 Samuel 12:23
- d. oftener in bad sense דַּרְכָּם הַקָּשָׁה Ju 2:19, דַּרְכּוֹ הָרָעָה 1 K 13:33, ד׳ רַע Pr 2:12; 8:13; 28:10; cf. 2 K 17:13 2 Ch 7:14 Je 18:11; 23:22; 25:5; 26:3; 35:15; 36:2, 7 Ez 3:18, 19; 13:22; 20:44; 33:11 Jon 3:8, 10 Zc 1:4; ד׳לֹא טוֹב ψ 36:5 Pr 16:29 Is 65:2; דַּרְכֵּךְ זִמָּה Ez 16:27; cf. with completed metaph. ד׳ לֹא סְלוּלָה Je 18:15; further ד׳ שֶׁקֶר ψ 119:29, ד׳ עֹצֶב ψ 139:24, ד׳ פִּשְׁעָם ψ 107:17; דַּרְכֵי־חֹשֶׁךְ Pr 2:13; דַּרְכֵי מָוֶת Pr 14:12 = 16:25; דרך המות Je 21:8, cf. supr. c; ד׳ עָצֵל Pr 15:19 (cf. 6:6); ד׳ חַטָּאִים ψ 1:1 cf. v 6 Pr 1:15; 3:31; 4:19 (ד׳ רְשָׁעִים), 12:15 (ד׳ אֱוִיל), 13:15 (ד׳ בֹּגְדִים), also 15:9; 21:8 Is 55:7; ד׳ עִקֵּשׁ Pr 22:5, cf. עִקֵּשׁ דְּרָכַיִם Pr 28:6 cf. v 18; further, without modifier, Ho 4:9; 12:3 Pr 7:25; 14:14 Is 53:6; 66:3 Je 2:23 (of idolatry רְאִי דַרְכֵּךְ בַּגַּיְא) v 23 4:11 (cf. Hi Gf) v 18 15:7; 22:21 Ez 16:47(×2), 61; 18:23; 20:43; 23:13, 31; 33:8, 9(×2), 11; 36:17(×2), 31, 32 cf. also sub a. supr.; לָתֵת דַּרְכּוֹ בְּרֹאשׁוֹ 1 K 8:32 to place his way upon his head, i.e. requite it on him = 2 Ch 6:23, cf. Ez 7:4; 9:10; 11:21; 16:43; 22:31; פְּרִי דַּרְכָּם Pr 1:31; especially cstr. before names of bad kings ד׳ יָרָבְעָם 1 K 15:34 (cf. v 26) 16:2, 19, 26; 22:53 cf. v 53(×2); also ד׳ מַלְכֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל 2 K 8:18; 16:3 2 Ch 21:6, 13; 28:2 (pl.); דַּרְכֵי בֵּית אַחְאָב 2 K 8:27 = 2 Ch 22:3 (of Ahaziah, grandson of Ahab); ד׳ הָעָם הַזֶּה Is 8:11, ד׳ הַגּוֹיִם Je 10:2, ד׳ אֲבוֹתֵיכֶם Ez 20:30 cf. 2 K 21:21. e.g. Judges 2:19
- e. way of י׳: (a) = his creative activity Jb 26:14; applied in concrete sense to behemoth (hippopotamus) הוּא רֵאשִׁית דַּרְכֵי־אֵל Jb 40:19 (hyperb.); cf. of wisdom רֵאשִׁית דַּרְכּוֹ Pr 8:22; (b) = his moral administration, Ex 33:13 (pl.; JE); Dt 32:4 2 S 22:31 = ψ 18:31 Jb 21:31; 36:23; אלהים בַּקֹּדֶשׁ דַּרְכֶּ֑ךָ ψ 77:14 (‖ מִי אֵל גָּדוֹל כֵּאלֹהִים); ψ 85:14; 103:7; 138:5; 145:17; Pr 10:29 Is 55:8, 9 Je 5:4, 5 Ez 18:25(×2), 29(×2); 33:17, 20 Ho 14:10. (c.) = his commandments וְשָֽׁמְרוּ ד׳ י׳ לַעֲשׂוֹת צְדָקָה וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט Gn 18:19 (J); כָּל־הַדֶּרֶךְ אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה י׳ Dt 5:30 cf. (pl.) 8:6; 10:12; 11:22, 28; 19:9; 26:17; 28:9; 30:16 Jos 22:5 (D) Ju 2:22 2 S 22:22 = ψ 18:22, 1 K 2:3; 3:14; 8:58; 11:33, 38 2 K 21:22 2 Ch 6:31 Jb 21:14; 23:11; 34:27; ψ 25:4, 9; 27:11; 37:34; 51:15; 67:3; 81:14; 86:11; 95:10; 119:3 Is 2:3 = Mi 4:2, Is 42:24; 58:2; 63:17; 64:4 Zc 3:7 Mal 2:9; cf. וַיִּגְבַּהּ לִבּוֹ בְּדַרְכֵי י׳ 2 Ch 17:6; v. also ד׳ עֵדְוֹתֶיךָ ψ 119:14; ד׳ פִּקּוּדֶיךָ v 27, ד׳ מִצְוֹתֶ֑יךָ v 32, ד׳ חֻקֶּיךָ v 33. e.g. Job 26:14
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Dt 17:16 & (less often) f. Ex 18:20 way, road, distance, journey, manner—abs. ד׳ Gn 38:16 +; דָּ֑רֶךְ v 21 +; cstr. דֶּרֶךְ 3:24; sf. דַּרְכִּי 24:42 + 4 times + 2 S 22:33 דַּרְכִּ֯ו; דַּרְכְּךָ Ho 10:13 1 K 19:15; דַּרְכֶּ֑ךָ ψ 5:9 + 9 times; דַּרְכֵּךְ Je 2:23 + 8 times; דַּרְכּוֹ Gn 6:12 +; דַּרְכָּהּ 1 S 1:18 Jb 28:23; דַּרְכֵּנוּ Ju 18:5 + 2 times; דַּרְכְּכֶם Gn 19:2 + 3 times; דַּרְבָּם 1 K 2:4 +; du. דְּרָכַיִם Pr 28:6, 18; pl. דְּרָכִים Dt 28:7 + 6 times; cstr. דַּרְכֵי Pr 3:17 + 24 times; sf. דְּרָכַי Jb 13:15 + 17 times, דְּרָכָ֑י ψ 95:10 + 4 times; דְּרָכֶיךָ Dt 28:29 + 16 times; דְּרָכֶךָ Ex 33:13 + 2 times; דְּרָכַיִךְ Je 3:13 + 4 times; דְּרָכָ֑יִךְ Ez 7:3 + 3 times; דְּרָכָיו Dt 10:12 +; דְּרָכֶיהָ Pr 3:17 + 3 times; דְּרָכֵינוּ La 3:40 Zc 1:6; דַּרְכֵיכֶם Lv 26:22 + 17 times; דַּרְכֵיהֶם Je 16:17 + 5 times; דַּרְכֵיהֶן Ez 16:47;—
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Derived from דרך (dârak) (H1869) — to tread.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דָּרַךְ
- (b. h.) to tread, stamp, walk. Ter. I, 9 ונמלך לדוֹרְכָן and after consideration decided to use them for pressing. Ex. R. s. 15 עתיד לִדְרוֹךְ וכ׳ He will tread with His shoe upon &c.; a. fr.
- to be trodden, pressed. Ter. I, 8 ענבים הנִדְרָכוֹת (Mish. ed. הנִדְרָכִים) grapes in the press or intended for the press.
- to lead, rear, train. Snh. 76ᵇ; Yeb. 62ᵇ המַּדְרִיךְ בניו וכ׳ he who leads his sons … on the right path.
דְּרַךְ
- 1. same. Targ. O. Deut. I, 36. Targ. Is. LIX, 8; a. fr.—Keth. 60ᵇ bot. דדָרְכָא על וכ׳ who stepped upon &c. Sabb. 109ᵃ דדרכא ליה וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. דדריכא) that an ass had stepped on his foot. [Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 55ᶜ top יתיב מדרך, read: מְרַמֵּךְ, v. דְּמַךְ.—Lev. R. s. 27 דרכת עד, read: אוֹרְכַת, v. אֲרִיךְ I.]
- 2. to overtake, v. infra.
- 1. to thresh. Targ. Is. XXVIII, 27 sq.; a. e.
- 2. to lead. Targ. Prov. XXII, 6, v. דְּכִי Af.—Targ. Ps. XXV, 9; a. e.
- 3. to trace, overtake. Targ. Prov. VI, 11; XXIV, 34 ותַדְרְכָיךְ (ed. Lag. ותִידְ׳, Var. ותדרוך, ותדכיך, ותרכיך, h. text כמהלך).—Keth. 60ᵇ; Ab. Zar. 15ᵇ ולא אַדְרְכֵיה and did not find him.
דֶּרֶךְ
- c. (b. h.; preced.) way, road; method, manner. Kidd. 2ᵇ ד׳ לשון וכ׳ derekh is feminine gender &c. Ib. דַרְכּוֹ של אישׁ וכ׳ it is man’s way to carry war, and not woman’s.—Y. Ned. I, beg. 36ᶜ, a. e. התורה דיברה כדַרְכָּהּ, v. לָשׁוֹן. Succ. II, 1 לפי דַרְכֵּינוּ by our way (incidentally). Ab. Zar. 15ᵇ כד׳ שאסור … כך וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. כד׳ שאמרו אסור) on the same principle that &c.; a. v. fr.—דֶּ׳ אֶרֶץ (abbrev. ד׳'א) the way of the land, a) good manners; b) secular occupation, trade; c) (euphem.) sexual connection. Ab. II, 2 study עם ד׳'א combined with a trade. Tosef. Sot. VII, 20 לימדה … ד׳'א וכ׳ the Torah teaches incidentally the proper conduct that one must first build a house &c.—Gitt. 70ᵃ bot. ד׳ וד׳'א וכ׳ travelling, marital connection &c. Gen. R. s. 18, end. Gen. R. s. 22, beg.—Ib. s. 80 כדַרְכָּהּ natural gratification of sexual appetite, שלא כד׳ unnatural. Ib. s. 18, end; a. fr.—Snh. 31ᵇ העביר עלי את הד׳ mutilated me (oth. interpret.: wronged me in business).—Pl. דְּרָכִים. Kidd. I, 1. R. Hash. 17ᵃ פירשו מדַּרְכֵי ציבור they deviated from the ways of the community, became heretics.—דרכי אמורי, v. אֱמוֹרִי.—דרכי שלום ways of peace (ref. to Prov. III, 17); מפני ד׳ ש׳ because the ways of the Law are ways of peace (differ. fr. משים איבה, v. אֵיבָה), i.e. it is a demand of equity, good manners &c., though no special law can be quoted for it. Gitt. V, 8 sq.; a. fr.—(ד׳'א) דרך ארץ Derekh Erets (Manners), name of a treatise attached to Talmud editions, divided into Rabba (Large), and Zuta (Small). e.g. Proverbs 3:17
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The 283 distinct written forms H1870 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 223 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 591 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 626 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 3:24
- Exodus 3:18
- Leviticus 26:22
- Numbers 9:10
- Deuteronomy 1:2
- Joshua 1:8
- Judges 2:17
- Ruth 1:7
- 1 Samuel 1:18
- 2 Samuel 2:24
- 1 Kings 1:49
- 2 Kings 2:23
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