ha.lakh primarily marks going or moving from place to place, and also describes walking in stated ways or before someone.

The supplied verses chiefly show actual movement: people, groups, and objects go, travel, depart, return, or proceed toward a destination. In covenantal and royal clauses, it also describes walking in specified ways, following, or walking before someone; several clauses use it for continuing movement or progress within an ongoing action.

1. Moving, traveling, or setting out · dominant

   Qal forms repeatedly occur where people or groups change location or move along a route. In 1 Kings 18:6 the APB renders Ahab and Obadiah as each going a different way, while in 1 Chronicles 15:25 it renders David and the assembly as going to bring up the ark. The active participle in 1 Samuel 17:15 occurs in the clause the APB renders David going "back and forth" between Saul and his father's flock.

   1 Kings 18:61 Chronicles 15:251 Samuel 17:151 Samuel 20:422 Kings 4:231 Samuel 10:14
2. Walking in a stated way or before someone · common

   Several clauses place the verb with "ways" or "before" a person, describing conduct measured by commands or allegiance. In 1 Kings 11:38 the APB renders the clause "walk in my ways" alongside doing what is right and keeping statutes, whereas 1 Kings 11:33 contrasts this with not walking in those ways. In 1 Samuel 2:35, the Hithpael form occurs where the APB renders the faithful priest as walking before the anointed.

   1 Kings 11:331 Kings 11:381 Kings 14:81 Samuel 2:301 Samuel 2:352 Chronicles 6:14
3. Proceeding or continuing in an action · occasional

   Infinitive absolute and participial forms can stand in clauses portraying ongoing movement or development. In 1 Chronicles 11:9 the APB renders David as having "went on going and becoming great"; in 1 Samuel 14:19 it renders the crowd as "kept moving, going farther." In 1 Samuel 19:23, the infinitive absolute appears in a clause rendered Saul "walked along prophesying" until he arrived.

   1 Chronicles 11:91 Samuel 14:191 Samuel 19:232 Chronicles 17:122 Samuel 15:121 Samuel 2:26

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the movement clauses with "went," "going," "walk," "traveled," "depart," and "returned," and presents the conduct clauses with "walk in my ways" or "walk before." Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these English choices describe the clauses rather than fixing a separate rendering for every form.