הֲלָךְ
toll
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1983 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 3 verses
- Ezra 4:13 וַ/הֲלָךְ֙ conj + n c ms Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
- Ezra 4:20 וַ/הֲלָ֖ךְ conj + n c ms There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.
- Ezra 7:24 וַ/הֲלָ֔ךְ conj + n c ms Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
הלך — transliterated hălâk — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “toll.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezra (100% of all occurrences). Debuting at Ezra 4:13, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside הלך, הוך and הם. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1983 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Custom 2×
- American Standard Version: Custom 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Or toll 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Or custom 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1983 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1983 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1983 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1983 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- toll, custom duty, tribute
Word origin
Derived from הלך (hălak) (H1981) — to walk.
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.
הֵילֵךְ
- = אֵילֵךְ. Y. Yeb. X, end, 11ᶜ.—Zab. III, 2 ה׳ … ה׳ this way …, the other way; a. fr.
הֵלֵךְ
- , v. הֵילֵךְ
הָלַךְ
- (b. h.) to go, go away; to walk. Yeb. 84ᵃ כשהָלַכְתִּי וכ׳ when I left home to study with &c. Macc. 10ᵇ, a. e. בדרך שאדם רוצה לֵילֵךְ בה מוֹלִיכִין אותו whatever way one desires to go, one is led; a. v. fr.—הוֹלְכֵי מדברות travellers through the desert. Taan. 27ᵇ; a. e.—Y. Kidd. I, 61ᵈ כהולכים בתורת ד׳ (not בה׳) as though they did walk in the law &c.—Imper. לֵךְ, לְכָה, v. כָּלָה Pi., a. כַּלֵּךְ.
- 1. same, same, to walk, tread upon. Ḥull. IX, 2 (122ᵃ) או שהי׳ בהן (Mish. ed. שהלך) or trod upon them for tanning purposes. Erub. 100ᵇ שיְהַלֵּךְ ע"ג וכ׳ to tread upon plants. Gen. R. s. 39 מְהַלֵּךְ בארם וכ׳ travelling through Aram &c.—Keth. 60ᵃ; Ker. 22ᵃ מְהַלְּכֵי שתים walking on two legs (human beings); a. fr.
- 2. to cause opening of the bowels. Y. Kil. I, 27ᵃ top מְהַלֶּכֶת את בני מיעים; cmp. הִילּוּךְ. [Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵇ top מהלך לפניהן אל הארץ, v. חָלַד.]
- 1. to lead; to carry. Macc. 10ᵇ, v. supra. Gitt. 4ᵃ המוֹלִיךְ וכ׳ he who carries abroad a letter of divorce, contrad. to המביא he who brings a letter from abroad. Ab. Zar. III, 9 יוֹלִיךְ הנאה וכ׳ let him cast the profit (one loaf’s value) into the Sea. Gitt. VI, 1 הוֹלֵךְ גט וכ׳ carry this letter of divorce (as a messenger). Ib. 63ᵃ sq. (distinction between הילך, here is the letter of divorce, i.e. take possession of it in behalf of my wife, and הולך carry it, i.e. be my messenger). Ib. 64ᵃ, a. e. הולך כזכי דמי ‘carry’ (the letter of divorce) is equal to ‘take possession’ (in behalf of her who authorized thee); a. fr.
- to go away, withdraw. Cant. R. to V, 1; Gen. R. s. 19 (ref. to Gen. III, 8) מְהַלֵּךְ … אלא מִתְהַלֵּךְ וכ׳ it does not say m’hallekh (walking) but mith-hallekh, He hastened and went upward. Ib. מתהלך לו (ed. מת הלך, corr. acc., v. Matt. K.) is he (Adam) going away (from God)?, v. אתמהא. e.g. Genesis 3:8
הֲלַךְ
- , to walk. Targ. Ps. CXXVI, 6 (Ms. Pa.). Targ. Y. II, Gen. XXII, 8 הֲלִיכוּ (some ed. הַלִ׳). Contr. יְהָךְ, מְהָךְ, v. הך.
- same. Targ. O. Gen. V, 22. Targ. I Sam. XXX, 31; a. fr.
- same. Targ. Ps. CI, 2. Ib. CXVI, 9.
הֲלָךְ
- (Ezra IV, 13) name of atax, prob. sustenance of marching troops. B. Bath. 8ᵃ; Ned. 62ᵇ expl. as אַרְנוֹנָא. Gen. R. s. 64, a. e., v. אַנְגַּרְיָא. e.g. Ezra 4:13
הֵלֶךְ
- traveller. Succ. 52ᵇ (ref. to II Sam. XII, 4) מתחלה קראו ה׳ וכ׳ at first he calls him (the tempting sin) a traveller &c. e.g. 2 Samuel 12:4
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H1983 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ/הֲלָ֔ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 7:24 | 1 |
| וַ/הֲלָ֖ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 4:20 | 1 |
| וַ/הֲלָךְ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 4:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1983, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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