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2 Kings 8:9
“So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben–hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3212 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
- Derivation
- a primitive root (compare H1980 (הָלַךְ));
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, [phrase] follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, [phrase] pursue, cause to run, spread, take away (-journey), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, [idiom] be weak.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יֵּ֣לֶךְ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 1,044 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:14Genesis 7:18Genesis 9:23Genesis 11:31Genesis 12:1
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יָלַךְ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.