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# הָלִיךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1978

**step** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

step [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1978/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] step, only pl. sf. בִּרְחֹץ הֲלִיכַי בְּחֵמָה Jb 29:6 when my steps were bathed in cream (חֵמָה = חֶמְאָה) hyperb. of abundance, wealth.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: steps (1).

## In the verses

[Job 29:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.6/#tree)

בִּרְחֹ֣ץ הֲלִיכַ֣י בְּחֵמָ֑ה וְצ֥וּר יָצ֥וּק עִ֝מָּדִ֗י פַּלְגֵי־שָֽׁמֶן׃

*Word for word:* when bathed steps my in curd\[s\] and a.rock it.poured.out beside me streams of.oil

*JPS 1917:* When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1978.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1978/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).