Word

שָׁבִיל

shâbîyl · H7635 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Thing

Street, road, path, way, trackMunicipal structures938 verses

Meanings

path > conduct

Literally: path; hence: pattern of behavior, with a primary focus on moral and ethical behavior, understood as a journey through life

Examples
Psalm 77:19 Your way was in the sea And Your paths in the mighty waters, And Your footprints were not known.
Jeremiah 18:15 ‘For My people have forgotten Me, They burn incense to worthless gods. And they have stumbled in their ways, In the ancient roads, To walk on paths, Not on a highway,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עוֹלָםforever 1
ךָyour 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דֶּרֶךְway, road 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מַיִםwater 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 1 word

אֹרַח ʼôrach · H734 · path, road, course: Both share the core sense "path," denoting a road or way, and can substitute for each other in contexts of travel.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Act002002002001: Jeremiah 18:15 laments that Israel has "stumbled in their ways... to walk on paths, not on a highway," using this word for a course of conduct rather than the well-trodden main road.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שֹׁבֶל shôbel · H7640 · skirt, train · 1×שִׁבֹּל shibbôl · H7641 · stream, flood, ear of grain · 19×שָׁבִילshâbîyl · H7635סִבֹּלֶת çibbôleth · H5451 · ear or grain · 1×שַׁבְלוּל shablûwl · H7642 · snail · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7635. shebil or shebul שְׁבִיל שְׁבוּל, noun [masculine] way, path (properly as flowing…

H7635. shebil
or shebul שְׁבִיל שְׁבוּל, noun [masculine] way, path (properly as flowing along, stretching out ? compare Late Hebrew שְׁבִיל, Arabic ); Aramaic שְׁבִילָא); — plural suffix בְּמַיִם וּשְׁבִילְיךָ֯ רַבִּים [Kt שְׁבִילְךָ Psa 77:20 (of ׳י; || דַּרְכֶּ֑ךָ); construct (figurative of course of life) עוֺלָם שְׁבוּלֵי Jer 18:15 (Kt; Qr שְׁבִילֵי; || דְּרָכִים).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Act2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0