אָרַח ʼârach — to travel
Translated in the KJV as go, wayfaring.
a primitive root; to travel.
ʼârach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 4Perfect (qatal) 1
And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
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.
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›