הָלַךְ hâlak — to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as along, apace, behave, come, continually, be conversant, depart, be eased, enter, exercise, follow, forth.
akin to H3212; a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively).
hâlak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 153Perfect (qatal) 149Infinitive absolute 48Sequential perfect (weqatal) 47Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Infinitive construct 7Imperative 4Wayyiqtol 3Jussive 1
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Perfect (qatal) 14Participle (active) 10Wayyiqtol 10Infinitive construct 6Imperative 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Cohortative 1
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Perfect (qatal) 5Participle (active) 2Wayyiqtol 1Participle (passive) 1Imperative 1
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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 ›
