Lexical Summary orach: a way, path Original Word: אֹרַחTransliteration: orach Phonetic Spelling: (o'-rakh) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a way, path Meaning: a well-trodden road, a caravan Strong's Concordance manner, highway From 'arach; a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan -- manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-)way. see HEBREW 'arach Brown-Driver-Briggs H734. orach אֹ֫רַח noun masculineJob 6:18 (feminineProverbs 15:19) way, path (Assyrian ur—u COTGloss, Aramaic אֹרַח, ) — ׳א absolute Psalm 19:6 +; construct Proverbs 4:18 +; suffix אָרְחִי Job 19:8; Psalm 139:3 < Infinitive construct, and "" רִבְעִי (Infinitive construct of II. רבע), not דרכי, compare Bae. etc.; plural absolute אֳרָחוֺת Judges 5:6 (twice in verse) construct אָרְחוֺת Job 8:13 +; suffix אָרְחֹתָ֑י 13:27; 33:11; אָרְחוֺתָם Joel 2:7; Proverbs 9:15; אָרְחֹתֵיהֶם 2:15; also אֹרְחֹתָיו Isaiah 2:3 +; אֹרְחֹתֶיךָ Psalm 119:15 + etc.; — way, path (in Hebrew mostly poetry) 1 literal Judges 5:6 (twice in verse) Songs of Deborah (alone = highways, opposed to ׳א עֲקַלְקַלּוֺת crooked (by- paths;) compare also נְתִיבוֺת הֹלְכֵי ib.); Isaiah 33:8 א ׳עֹבֵר = wayfarer ("" מְסִלּוֺת), see also Genesis 49:17 (blessing of Jocob) ("" דֶּרֶךְ) & אָרְחוֺתָם הֵמְיַשְּׁרִים those who make straight their ways ("" דָרֶ֑ךְ עֹבְרֵי) Proverbs 9:15, א ׳בּוֺא go (tread) a path Isaiah 41:3; of course of locusts Joel 2:7 א יְעַבְּטוּן ׳לֹא they confuse not their paths ("" דְּרָכִים); ׳א יַמִּים paths of the seas Psalm 8:9; אֹרַח רוּץ run along a path, figurative of sun 19:6. 2 figurative path, way, of course & fortunes of life Job 13, 27 = Job 33:11; 19:8 ("" נְתִיבוֺת) Psalm 139:3 ("" דֶּרֶךְ) 142:4 ("" נְתִיבָה) Proverbs 3:6 ("" דֶּרֶךְ) 4:18; 15:19 (both "" id.) Isaiah 26:7 ("" מַעְגָּל) so אֹרְחֹתֶיךָ דֶּרֶךְ 3:12; plain or even path ׳א מִישׁוֺר Psalm 27:11; in two cases with a special reference (1) כַּנָּשִׁים אֹרַח Genesis 18:11 (J) of menstruation; (2) אֶהֱלֹךְ אָשׁוּב לֹא אֹרַח a path (which) I shall not return, I am going Job 16:22 i.e. to Sh®°ôl, compare Assyrian name of lower world irƒit lâ târat, land without return, see Jr10; Jr65. 3 figurative way, of mode of living, or of character Job 34:11 ("" מֹּעַל) Psalm 119:9. Specifically: a. ways of ׳י, his mode of action Psalm 25:10; b. of man's righteousness, called ways of ׳י Psalm 25:4 ("" דְּרָכִים) 44:19; 119:15 ("" מִּקּוּדִים) Isaiah 2:3 = Micah 4:2 ("" דְּרָכִים) compare ׳א מִשְׁמָּטֶיךָ Isaiah 26:8; also way of justice, uprightness, etc. ׳א מִשְׁמָּט Proverbs 2:8 ("" דֶּרֶח) 17:23; Isaiah 40:14 ("" דֶּרֶח), ׳א ישֶׁר Proverbs 2:13 ("" id.), ׳א צְדָקָה 8:20 ("" נְתִיבוֺת), 12:28 ("" נְתִיבָה דֶּרֶךְ); so אֹרַה alone Isaiah 30:11 ("" דֶּרֶךְ) Proverbs 15:10; note especially חַיִּים אֹרַח, path of life, in righteousness & enjoyment of God Psalm 16:11; Proverbs 2:19; 5:5; 15:24 (opposed to שְׁאוֺל), also ׳א לְחַיִּים 10:17 (on these compare Str 14:32); c. of wickedness, ׳א מָּרִיץ way, path of the violent Psalm 17:4, compare also Proverbs 22:25; ׳א רְשָׁעְים 4:14 ("" דֶּרֶךְ), ׳א בֹּצֵעַ 1:19; followed by abstract ׳א שָׁ֑קֶר Psalm 119:104, so 119:128 ("" מִּקּוּדִים), also with adjective ׳א רָע 119:101 compare Proverbs 2:15 (עִקְּשִׁים crooked) called ׳הָא עלָוֺם Job 22:15; note also ׳א אֵידָם their destructive ways, i.e. ways that cause destruction 30:12 (compare 19:12). 4 by meton. traveler, wayfarer Job 31:32 (compare חֵלֶךְ 2 Samuel 12:4) & in plural caravans 6:18-19, but read perhaps לָאֹרֵחַ 2Sam 31:32, אֹרְחוֺת 6:18-19,. |