נָתִיב
na.tiv
path
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word נָתִיב (na.tiv) is translated as "path." This term is part of the Movement and Travel semantic domain, indicating its connection to routes of movement or direction. With 20 occurrences in the Bible, this word is used across various contexts to convey the idea of a pathway or track. The usage of נָתִיב is diverse, encompassing both literal and figurative meanings. In some instances, it refers to a physical path or track, such as walking, traveling, or journeying (e.g., a shepherd keeping his flock's path). In other cases, it conveys a figurative sense, like a path of behavior or a lifestyle choice (e.g., the ways of God). The significance of נָתִיב lies in its ability to illustrate both the physical and spiritual aspects of movement and direction. By emphasizing the path or route, it highlights the importance of making choices that have consequences and impact one's life and relationships.
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Occurrences in Scripture
20 total occurrences across the text
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Job 24:13“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
Job 30:13They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
Job 38:20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
Psalms 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
Psalms 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
Proverbs 1:15My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
Proverbs 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Proverbs 7:25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
Proverbs 8:2On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
Proverbs 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,
Isaiah 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 43:16Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,
Isaiah 58:12Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
Isaiah 59:8They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
Jeremiah 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 18:15For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,
Lamentations 3:9He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
Hosea 2:6Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
Judges 5:6“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.