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# הֲלִיכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1979

**a going** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a going [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1979/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֲלִיכָה: n.f. going, way, travelling-company [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1979/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a going, way, travelling-company, sf. הֲלִיכָתָם Na 2:6 Qr (הלוכתם Kt); elsewhere only pl., cstr. הֲלִיכוֹת ψ 68:25, so Pr 31:27 Qr (הילכות Kt), הֲלִכוֹת Hb 3:6, הֲלִיכֹת Jb 6:19; sf. הֲלִיכוֹתֶיךָ ψ 68:25;— going, walk, Na 2:6 they shall stumble in their going; elsewhere pl. goings: ψ 68:25(×2) of going, marching, progress of God into the sanctuary (בַּקֹּדֶשׁ; so Hup Pe Che; Ew Hi De in holiness) ref. either to solemn processions of worshippers (e.g. De) or, perhaps better, to the theophanic progress of God himself (e.g. Che); also of goings = doings צוֹפִיָּה ה׳ בֵּיתָהּ Pr 31:27 watching the doings of her household; of God Hb 3:6 הֲלִכוֹת עוֹלָם לוֹ ways of eternity (al. of old) are his. travelling-company, caravan הֲלִיכֹת שְׁבָא Jb 6:19 (‖ אָרְחוֹת תֵּמָא).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 6:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.19/#tree)

הִ֭בִּיטוּ אָרְח֣וֹת תֵּמָ֑א הֲלִיכֹ֥ת שְׁ֝בָ֗א קִוּוּ־לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* they.look the.caravans of.Tema the.caravans of.Sheba they.wait.eagerly for them

*JPS 1917:* The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them —

[Proverbs 31:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.27/#tree)

צ֭וֹפִיָּה הֲלִיכ֣וֹת בֵּיתָ֑הּ וְלֶ֥חֶם עַ֝צְל֗וּת לֹ֣א תֹאכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* \[she.is\].watching.over the.goings her.household her and.\[the\] bread of.laziness not she.eats

*JPS 1917:* She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1979.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1979/): 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).