Path
שְׁבוּלStrong’s H7635shavil (sha-vil)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shavil is the Hebrew word usually translated “path your” and “paths of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.”
Meaning
- Way, path
How it's translated
- and path your 1
- paths of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁבוּל shavil · path
way, path
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.