# H3212 יָלַךְ

יָלַךְ (yâlak), Strong’s H3212: to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses) KJV: [idiom] again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow…

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*yâlak* — to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

KJV: [idiom] again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, [phrase]…

Occurs 1044 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- הָלַךְ 1546 vb. go, come, walk
- Qal Impf. usually (629 t.) as if from ילך
- I lit.
- 1 of persons
- 2 Also of animals, in similar meanings and combinations
- 3 in like manner of inanimate things
- 4 The inf. abs. is often used
- a as in other vbs., quite independently
- b to intensify meaning of finite form
- c most noteworthy is the joining of the Inf. abs.
- (1) with a following Inf. abs. denoting a simutaneous action or process, and so emphasizing duration or continuance
- (2) with a foll. vb. fin. c. ו consec. (rare)
- (3) in cases where vb. fin. is foll. by Inf. abs. adj. denoting progress, advance
- (4) twice, where vb. fin. is not הלך, but another vb. denoting motion
- (5) quite by itself
- (6) 13 t. the Inf. abs. = Imv. & is followed by Pf. consec.
- d akin to the use of Inf. abs. are some instances of Pt.
- 5 In combination with other verbal forms
- II Fig.; the most common uses follow; in most the origin in a literal meaning is evident:
- 1 pass away, die
- 2 live (‘walk’), in general
- 3 of moral and religious life
- 4 other fig. uses
- Pi. (chiefly poet. and late)
- 1 walk in or with a throng
- 2 also of walking about = living
- 3 depart, go entirely away
- 4 fig. of mode of life, action, etc.
- Hithp. walk, walk about, move to and fro
- Hiph.
- 1 lead, bring
- 2 lead away
- 3 carry, bring
- 4 fig. of influence on character
- a cause to walk, go
- b cause to flow, run
- c cause to depart, retire, go back

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 3:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=14) — The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every…
- [Genesis 7:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=18) — The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
- [Genesis 9:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=23) — Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of…
- [Genesis 11:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=31) — Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife…
- [Genesis 12:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=1) — Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I…
- [Genesis 12:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=4) — So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from…
- [Genesis 12:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=5) — Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom…
- [Genesis 12:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=19) — Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go…
- [Genesis 13:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=3) — He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between…
- [Genesis 14:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=11) — They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.