Usually translated as
way, path, manner, race, rank, traveller, troop, byway, highway
Occurrences
ʼôrach occurs 59 times in 58 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Judges (1), Job (11), Psalms (15), Proverbs (19), Isaiah (8), Joel (1), Micah (1)
- Genesis 18:11 — Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner (אֹ֖רַח) of women.
- Genesis 49:17 — Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path (אֹ֑רַח), that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
- Judges 5:6 — In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways (אֳרָח֑וֹת) were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
- Judges 5:6 — In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways (אֳרָח֖וֹת).
- Job 6:18 — The paths (אָרְח֣וֹת) of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
- Job 6:19 — The troops (אָרְח֣וֹת) of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
- Job 8:13 — So are the paths (אָ֭רְחוֹת) of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
- Job 13:27 — Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths (אָרְחוֹתָ֑י); thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
- Job 16:22 — When a few years are come, then I shall go the way (וְאֹ֖רַח) whence I shall not return.
- Job 19:8 — He hath fenced up my way (אָרְחִ֣י) that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
- Job 22:15 — Hast thou marked the old way (הַאֹ֣רַח) which wicked men have trodden?
- Job 30:12 — Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways (אָרְח֥וֹת) of their destruction.
- Job 31:32 — The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to (לָאֹ֥רַח) the traveller.
- Job 33:11 — He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths (אָרְחֹתָֽי).
- Job 34:11 — For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways (וּֽכְאֹ֥רַח).
- Psalms 8:8 — The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths (אָרְח֥וֹת) of the seas.
- Psalms 16:11 — Thou wilt shew me the path (אֹ֤רַח) of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
- Psalms 17:4 — Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths (אָרְח֥וֹת) of the destroyer.
- Psalms 19:5 — Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race (אֹֽרַח).
- Psalms 25:4 — Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths (אֹ֖רְחוֹתֶ֣יךָ).
- Psalms 25:10 — All the paths (אָרְח֣וֹת) of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Psalms 27:11 — Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path (בְּאֹ֣רַח), because of mine enemies.
- Psalms 44:18 — Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way (אָרְחֶֽךָ);
- Psalms 119:9 — Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way (אָרְח֑וֹ)? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
- Psalms 119:15 — I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways (אֹרְחֹתֶֽיךָ).
- Psalms 119:101 — I have refrained my feet from every evil way (אֹ֣רַח), that I might keep thy word.
- Psalms 119:104 — Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way (אֹ֬רַח).
- Psalms 119:128 — Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way (אֹ֖רַח).
- Psalms 139:3 — Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
- Psalms 142:3 — When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way (בְּאֹֽרַח) wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
- Proverbs 1:19 — So are the ways (אָ֭רְחוֹת) of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- Proverbs 2:8 — He keepeth the paths (אָרְח֣וֹת) of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
- Proverbs 2:13 — Who leave the paths (אָרְח֣וֹת) of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
- Proverbs 2:15 — Whose ways (אָרְחֹתֵיהֶ֣ם) are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
- Proverbs 2:19 — None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths (אָרְח֥וֹת) of life.
- Proverbs 2:20 — That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths (וְאָרְח֖וֹת) of the righteous.
- Proverbs 3:6 — In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths (אֹֽרְחֹתֶֽיךָ).
- Proverbs 4:14 — Enter not into the path (בְּאֹ֣רַח) of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
- Proverbs 4:18 — But the path (וְאֹ֣רַח) of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- Proverbs 5:6 — Lest thou shouldest ponder the path (אֹ֣רַח) of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
- Proverbs 8:20 — I lead in the way (בְּאֹֽרַח) of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
- Proverbs 9:15 — To call passengers who go right on their ways (אֹֽרְחוֹתָֽם):
- Proverbs 10:17 — He is in the way (אֹ֣רַח) of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
- Proverbs 12:28 — In the way (בְּאֹֽרַח) of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
- Proverbs 15:10 — Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way (אֹ֑רַח): and he that hateth reproof shall die.
- Proverbs 15:19 — The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way (וְאֹ֖רַח) of the righteous is made plain.
- Proverbs 15:24 — The way (אֹ֣רַח) of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
- Proverbs 17:23 — A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways (אָרְח֥וֹת) of judgment.
- Proverbs 22:25 — Lest thou learn his ways (אֹֽרְחֹתָ֑יו), and get a snare to thy soul.
- Isaiah 2:3 — And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths (בְּאֹרְחֹתָ֑יו): for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.