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# שְׁבִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7635

**way** — used 2 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

way [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7635/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 77:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.20/#tree)

בַּיָּ֤ם דַּרְכֶּ֗ךָ וּֽ֭שְׁבִֽילְךָ בְּמַ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים וְ֝עִקְּבוֹתֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א נֹדָֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].in the sea way your and path your \[was\].in waters many and footprints your not they.were.known

*JPS 1917:* Thy way was in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps were not known.

[Jeremiah 18:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.15/#tree)

כִּֽי־שְׁכֵחֻ֥נִי עַמִּ֖י לַשָּׁ֣וְא יְקַטֵּ֑רוּ וַיַּכְשִׁל֤וּם בְּדַרְכֵיהֶם֙ שְׁבִילֵ֣י עוֹלָ֔ם לָלֶ֣כֶת נְתִיב֔וֹת דֶּ֖רֶךְ לֹ֥א סְלוּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they have.forgotten.me people my to (the) falsehood they.make.smoke and they have.caused.them.to.stumble in ways their paths of.antiquity to walk paths a.way not cast.up

*JPS 1917:* For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7635.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7635/): 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).