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# נָתִיב

Biblical Hebrew

**path** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

path [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5ea_5b4_5d9_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָתִיב: n.m. path, pathway [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5ea_5b4_5d9_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 28:7 path, pathway (as raised);—abs. נ׳ Jb 18:10 + 3 times; cstr. נְתִיב ψ 119:35; sf. 3 fs. נְתִיבָהֿ Pr 12:28 (si vera l., v. infr.; on om. of Mappik v. Ges§ 91 e, v. infr.);—path Jb 18:10 (fig.), 28:7; 41:24 (track); ψ 78:50 (fig.); נְתִיב מִצְוֹתֶיךָ ψ 119:35 the path of thy commands; דֶּרֶךְ נְתִיבָה אַל־מָוֶת Pr 12:28 the journey of her pathway is no-death! (‖ בְּאֹרַח צְדָקָה חַיִּים) Ew Be De, v. אַל p. 39 a supr.; others read אֶל־, and eithr transl. נ׳ by-paths (Hi Str), or substitute a syn. of ‘wickedness’ (cf. Now Frankenb; PerlesAnalekten. 87 f. נִתְעָבִים after Levy ChWB i. 28 b).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] path (2); a path (2); the path (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.24/#tree)

אַ֭חֲרָיו יָאִ֣יר נָתִ֑יב יַחְשֹׁ֖ב תְּה֣וֹם לְשֵׂיבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* behind it it.makes.shine a.path anyone.considers the.deep to grey.hair

*JPS 1917:* He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

[Psalms 119:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.35/#tree)

הַ֭דְרִיכֵנִי בִּנְתִ֣יב מִצְוֺתֶ֑יךָ כִּי־ב֥וֹ חָפָֽצְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* lead me in the.path your.commandments your (dm) in it I.delight

*JPS 1917:* Make me to tread in the path of Thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5ea_5b4_5d9_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5ea_5b4_5d9_5d1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).