Strong's Lexicon

H732

H732 — אָרַח

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewarachverb-stemOccurrences: 5TWOT: 161

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H732
Word:	אָרַח
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	5
Transliteration:	arach
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	aw-rakh'
Meaning:	1. to travel
KJV Renderings:	go, wayfaring (man).

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אָרַח verb wander, journey, go (Phoenician ארךְ in מארח, probably = מְאָרֵחַ compare Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 412] lead, conduct, see Nö^{ZMG 1888, 472}; epithet of god Eshmun, Sabean ארחֿ DHM^{Epigr. Denkm. p. 70}, Aramaic אוֺרֵחַ, [untranscribed source text 413] traveller) —

Qal Perfect וְאָרַה consecutive Job 34:8 Participle אֹרֵחַ Judg 19:17 +; plural אֹרְהִים Jer 9:1 —

1. journey, go, with עִם figurative of association, companionship Job 34:8 לְחֶבְרָה עִםפֹּֿעֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן וְלָלֶכֶת עִםאַֿנְשֵׁיֶֿרשַׁע׃ ׳ וְא (compare also הלך Ps 1:1).

2. Participle wandering, wayfaring, journeying, הָאִישׁ הָאֹרֵחַ Judg 19:17 as substantive wanderer, wayfarer, traveller אֹרֵחַ 2Sam 12:4 (|| הֵלֶךְ), Jer 14:8 (|| גֵּר, in simile of ׳ י); מְלוֺן אֹרְחִים wayfarers' lodging-place Jer 9:1.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

ארח (ah-ragh’)

Job 34:8

KJV: Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

EHCC: Which goeth in company

Genesis 37:25

KJV: And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

EHCC: 4 company of Ishmeclites came

Judges 19:17

KJV: And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

EHCC: he saw a wayfaring man

Judges 280:19

EHCC: 4. to dress for the wayfaring man

Jeremiah 9:2

KJV: Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

EHCC: (1).a lodging of wayfaring men ;

Jeremiah 14:8

KJV: O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

EHCC: and asa pafaring mon