[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9A-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ה](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/he/)‎ / הֵלֶךְ‎

# הֵלֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1982

**traveller** — used 2 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

traveller [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1982/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֵ֫לֶךְ: n.m. traveller [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1982/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. traveller (properly a going, journey, whence wayfarer, traveller) only וַיָּבֹא הֵלֶךְ לְאִישׁ הֶעָשִׁיר 2 S 12:4 (‖ הָאֹרֵחַ הַבָּא לוֹ, הָאִישׁ הַבָּא לוֹ);—in MT 1 S 14:26 הֵלֶךְ דְּבָשׁ, ה׳ must be cstr. & = flowing, or dropping (of honey), but read rather הָלַךְ 𝔊 The Klo We Dr (& דְּבֹרוֹ for דְּבַשׁ q.v.; 𝔊 We Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: a flowing (1); a visitor (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 14:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.26/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֤א הָעָם֙ אֶל־הַיַּ֔עַר וְהִנֵּ֖ה הֵ֣לֶךְ דְּבָ֑שׁ וְאֵין־מַשִּׂ֤יג יָדוֹ֙ אֶל־פִּ֔יו כִּֽי־יָרֵ֥א הָעָ֖ם אֶת־הַשְּׁבֻעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the people into the forest and there! a.flowing of.honey and there.\[was\].not \[one.who\].reached hand his to mouth his (dm) it.feared the people (et) the oath

*JPS 1917:* And when the people were come unto the forest, behold a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

[2 Samuel 12:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.4/#tree)

וַיָּ֣בֹא הֵלֶךְ֮ לְאִ֣ישׁ הֶֽעָשִׁיר֒ וַיַּחְמֹ֗ל לָקַ֤חַת מִצֹּאנוֹ֙ וּמִבְּקָר֔וֹ לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת לָאֹרֵ֖חַ הַבָּא־ל֑וֹ וַיִּקַּ֗ח אֶת־כִּבְשַׂת֙ הָאִ֣ישׁ הָרָ֔אשׁ וַֽיַּעֲשֶׂ֔הָ לָאִ֖ישׁ הַבָּ֥א אֵלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.came a.visitor to.\[the\] man (the) rich and he.spared to take one of his.own.sheep and one of his.own.cattle to prepare for the traveler \[who had\].come to him and he.took (et) the.ewe-lamb of the.man (the) poor and he prepared.it for the man \[who had\].come to him

*JPS 1917:* And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1982.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1982/): 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).