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title: הֲלִיכָה — a going · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הֲלִיכָה (1979), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: a going. BDB 1906: n.f. going, way, travelling-company. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הֲלִיכָה

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«הֲלִיכָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a going** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 1979 · **BDB:** הֲלִיכָה

### Glosses

going (1); goings (1); processions (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

a going [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1979/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. going, way, travelling-company [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1979/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a going, way, travelling-company, sf. הֲלִיכָתָם Na 2:6 Qr (הלוכתם Kt); elsewhere only pl., cstr. הֲלִיכוֹת ψ 68:25, so Pr 31:27 Qr (הילכות Kt), הֲלִכוֹת Hb 3:6, הֲלִיכֹת Jb 6:19; sf. הֲלִיכוֹתֶיךָ ψ 68:25;— going, walk, Na 2:6 they shall stumble in their going; elsewhere pl. goings: ψ 68:25(×2) of going, marching, progress of God into the sanctuary (בַּקֹּדֶשׁ; so Hup Pe Che; Ew Hi De in holiness) ref. either to solemn processions of worshippers (e.g. De) or, perhaps better, to the theophanic progress of God himself (e.g. Che); also of goings = doings צוֹפִיָּה ה׳ בֵּיתָהּ Pr 31:27 watching the doings of her household; of God Hb 3:6 הֲלִכוֹת עוֹלָם לוֹ ways of eternity (al. of old) are his. travelling-company, caravan הֲלִיכֹת שְׁבָא Jb 6:19 (‖ אָרְחוֹת תֵּמָא).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הֲלִיכָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1979/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 6:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.19/)

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הִ֭בִּיטוּ אָרְח֣וֹת תֵּמָ֑א הֲלִיכֹ֥ת שְׁ֝בָ֗א קִוּוּ־לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* they.look the.caravans of.Tema the.caravans of.Sheba they.wait.eagerly for them

*JPS 1917:* The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them —

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[Proverbs 31:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.27/)

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צ֭וֹפִיָּה הֲלִיכ֣וֹת בֵּיתָ֑הּ וְלֶ֥חֶם עַ֝צְל֗וּת לֹ֣א תֹאכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* \[she.is\].watching.over the.goings her.household her and.\[the\] bread of.laziness not she.eats

*JPS 1917:* She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

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