דָּרַךְ darakh

Hebrew word for “to tread” · Strong’s H1869 · used 62 times in 59 verses

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Meaning

1) to tread, bend, lead, march;

How it is translated

Glosses given for darakh in context, with how often each is used:

• will tread 10
• trod 4
• those who bend 4
• tread 3
• one who treads 3
• has bent 3
• has trodden 2
• who bent 2
• have trodden 2
• lead 2
• have bent 2
• bend 2

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 11 (2), Psalms 25 (2), Isaiah 63 (2), Jeremiah 50 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Micah 5 (2), Habakkuk 3 (2), Numbers 24 (1), Deuteronomy 1 (1), Deuteronomy 33 (1)

Forms

• דרך 7
• ידרך 7
• תדרך 5
• דרכי 4
• דרכו 3
• ודרך 3
• וידרכו 2
• הדריכהו 2
• ודרכי 2
• הדריכני 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with darakh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• קֶשֶׁת qeshet “bow” 16
• חֵץ chets “arrow” 6
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 8
• בָּמָה bamah “high place” 5
• גַּת gat “wine press” 3
• הֵידָד hedad “shout” 3
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 7
• מָגֵן magen “shield” 4
• הָ ha “her” 6
• לָמַד lamad “to learn” 4
• יֶקֶב yeqev “wine” 3
• יַיִן yayin “wine” 4

Key verses

The verses using darakh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Numbers 24:17 — I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite…
• Deuteronomy 33:29 — Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies…
• Psalms 25:5 — Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
• Psalms 25:9 — The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
• Isaiah 42:16 — And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked…
• Isaiah 48:17 — Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou…
• Jeremiah 9:3 — And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know…
• Jeremiah 50:29 — Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her…
• Lamentations 2:4 — He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter…
• Amos 4:13 — For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon…
• Micah 5:5 — And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven…
• Zechariah 9:13 — When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.