הוּךְ
hukh
to go
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Analysis of הוּךְ (hukh): "To Go" The Hebrew word הוּךְ represents one of the Bible's fundamental verbs of motion, appearing 329 times throughout the text. Its primary meaning—"to go"—captures the basic concept of movement from one place to another. This high frequency of occurrence reflects how central the idea of physical movement is to biblical narrative and instruction, whether describing journeys, commands to travel, or metaphorical progression through situations. The extensive use of this verb across 329 occurrences suggests it functions as a common, everyday term rather than a specialized or elevated expression. Its prevalence indicates that biblical writers relied on this word to convey the simple but essential act of going or traveling, making it a cornerstone vocabulary item for understanding biblical stories of migration, flight, pursuit, and daily activity. The sheer number of instances demonstrates that motion—literal or figurative—was a recurring theme in biblical communication, whether in historical narrative, legal instruction, or poetic expression.
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Occurrences in Scripture
329 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes.
2 Chronicles 21:6He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
2 Chronicles 21:12A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Chronicles 21:13but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,
2 Chronicles 22:3He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
2 Chronicles 26:8The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceedingly strong.
2 Chronicles 28:2but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.
2 Chronicles 34:2He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
2 Chronicles 34:31The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
Nehemiah 5:9Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
Nehemiah 10:29joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
Nehemiah 12:38The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,
Esther 2:11Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.
Esther 9:4For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.
Job 1:7Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
Job 2:2Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
Job 18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
Job 22:14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
Job 29:3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Job 30:28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 31:5“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
Job 31:26if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
Job 34:8Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
Psalms 68:21But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
Job 38:16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
Psalms 12:8The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
Psalms 15:2He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
Psalms 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Psalms 26:1Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
Psalms 26:3For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
Psalms 26:11But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
Psalms 35:14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
Psalms 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Psalms 55:14We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.
Psalms 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
Psalms 73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
Psalms 77:17The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
Psalms 78:10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
Psalms 81:13Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Psalms 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Psalms 86:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
Psalms 89:15Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
Psalms 89:30If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
Psalms 91:6nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
Psalms 101:2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Psalms 101:6My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
Psalms 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.