Hebrew word · H8418

תַּהֲלוּכָה

vetahalukhot

procession

A walking, a procession. Built from halakh, 'to walk/go', with a prefix that turns verbs into nouns. It appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. · Updated October 21, 2026

What it means

procession

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Range of meaning: A walking, a procession. Built from halakh, 'to walk/go', with a prefix that turns verbs into nouns. It appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
Against the English: YLT and WEB keep 'processions'. KJV and BSB turn it into a clause ('[whereof one] went', 'One was to proceed'), which matches the sense but smooths over the odd Hebrew.
Used elsewhere in the period: Used only here in the Bible. The related verb halakh is used for the second company in v. 38 ('the second thanksgiving company went'), which supports reading motion here. Because the word is unique and the sentence is choppy, many commentators (e.g. Williamson, Blenkinsopp) suspect a small copying slip from 'and the one going'.

Nehemiah · 1

Nehemiah 12:31 וְתַהֲלֻכֹ֤ת and processions

Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs. One was to proceed along the top of the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.

Here: 'And processions' — a noun found only here, built from the verb 'to walk'. The companies did not stand still; they walked in procession. The awkward grammar makes many suspect it originally read 'and the one went'.

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