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Path

τρίβοςStrong’s G5147

tribos

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Tribos is the Greek word usually translated “paths”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”
Matthew 3:3 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “paths”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • paths 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 1
  • Mark 1
  • Luke 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

τρίβος tribos · path

τρίβος, -ου, -ἡ (τρίβω), [in LXX for מְסִלָּה, נָתִיב, etc. ;] a beaten track, a path: Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, Luk.3:4" (LXX) .† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “path” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

P'ATH, noun

plural paths. [Gr. to tread.]

  1. A way beaten or trodden by the feet of man or beast, or made hard by wheels; that part of a highway on which animals or carriages ordinarily pass; applied to the ground only, and never to a paved street in a city.
  2. Any narrow way beaten by the foot.
  3. The way, course or track where a body moves in the atmosphere or in space; as the path of a planet or comet; the path of a meteor.
  4. A way or passage.
All definitions and other forms of “path”
  1. Course of life.“He marketh all my paths” Job 33:11
  2. Precepts; rules prescribed.
  3. Course of providential dealings; moral government.“All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant” Psalms 25:10

P'ATH, verb transitive

To make a path by treading; to beat a path as in snow.

    P'ATH, verb intransitive

    To walk abroad.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.