Path
נָתִיבStrong’s H5410nativ (na-tiv)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nativ is the Hebrew word usually translated “paths”, “path” and “paths my”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.”
Meaning
- Trodden with the feet, path, pathway
- Path, pathway, traveller
How it's translated
- paths 3
- a path 3
- path 2
- paths my 2
- pathway my 2
- in paths its 1
- paths of 1
- in path of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 7
- Proverbs 6
- Psalms 4
- Isaiah 4
- Jeremiah 2
- Judges 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 18:10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
- Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
- Job 24:13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
- Job 28:7There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
- Job 30:13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
- Job 38:20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Hebrew dictionary
נָתִיב nativ · path
1) trodden with the feet, path, pathway 2) path, pathway, traveller
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.]
- 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.
- Any narrow way beaten by the foot.
- 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.
- A way or passage.
All definitions and other forms of “path”
- Course of life.“He marketh all my paths” Job 33:11
- Precepts; rules prescribed.
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.