נָתִיב
na.tiv (H5410B)
path
AI Word Study
The 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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“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,
I 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.
Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,
Those 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.
They 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.
Yahweh 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.’
For 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,
Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.