Nâthîyb — H5410

Definition

masculine noun

a (beaten) track

1. trodden with the feet, path, pathway
2. path, pathway, traveller

Usually translated as

path, way, pathway, travel, traveller

Origin

or (feminine) nᵉthîybâh; or nᵉthibâh; (Jeremiah 6:16), from an unused root meaning to tramp

Greek equivalents

• hodós (G3598)
• tríbos (G5147)

Occurrences

Nâthîyb occurs 26 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), Job (7), Psalms (4), Proverbs (6), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (2), Lamentations (1), Hosea (1)

• Judges 5:6 — In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and (נְתִיב֔וֹת) the travellers walked through byways.
• Job 18:10 — The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way (נָתִֽיב).
• Job 19:8 — He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths (נְ֝תִיבוֹתַ֗י).
• Job 24:13 — They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths (בִּנְתִיבֹתָֽיו) thereof.
• Job 28:7 — There is a path (נָ֭תִיב) which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
• Job 30:13 — They mar my path (נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥י), they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
• Job 38:20 — That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths (נְתִיב֥וֹת) to the house thereof?
• Job 41:32 — He maketh a path (נָתִ֑יב) to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
• Psalms 78:50 — He made a way (נָתִ֗יב) to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
• Psalms 119:35 — Make me to go in the path (בִּנְתִ֣יב) of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
• Psalms 119:105 — Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path (לִנְתִיבָתִֽי).
• Psalms 142:3 — When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path (נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥י). In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
• Proverbs 1:15 — My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path (מִנְּתִיבָתָֽם):
• Proverbs 3:17 — Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths (נְתִ֖יבוֹתֶ֣יהָ) are peace.
• Proverbs 7:25 — Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths (בִּנְתִיבוֹתֶֽיהָ).
• Proverbs 8:2 — She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths (נְתִיב֣וֹת).
• Proverbs 8:20 — I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths (נְתִיב֥וֹת) of judgment:
• Proverbs 12:28 — In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway (נְתִיבָ֣ה) thereof there is no death.
• Isaiah 42:16 — And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths (בִּנְתִיב֥וֹת) that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• Isaiah 43:16 — Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path (נְתִיבָֽה) in the mighty waters;
• Isaiah 58:12 — And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths (נְתִיב֖וֹת) to dwell in.
• Isaiah 59:8 — The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths (נְתִיבֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙): whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
• Jeremiah 6:16 — Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths (לִנְתִב֣וֹת), where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
• Jeremiah 18:15 — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths (נְתִיב֔וֹת), in a way not cast up;
• Lamentations 3:9 — He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked (נְתִיבֹתַ֖י).
• Hosea 2:6 — Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths (וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ).