Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
path
Usage: τρίβος, -ου, -ἡ (τρίβω), [in LXX for מְסִלָּה, נָתִיב, etc. ;] a beaten track, a path: Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, Luk.3:4" (LXX) .† (AS)
Tribos means “path” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5147 — nachbi (“Nakbi”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5147 τρίβος (tribos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. tribos (tree'-bos) n. 1. a rut or worn track [from tribo "to rub" (akin to teiro, truo, and the base of G5131, G5134)] It has 65 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include paths, way, ways, path, and lord. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
tribos (tree'-bos) n. 1. a rut or worn track [from tribo "to rub" (akin to teiro, truo, and the base of G5131, G5134)] KJV: path See also: G5131, G5134
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path
Usage: τρίβος, -ου, -ἡ (τρίβω), [in LXX for מְסִלָּה, נָתִיב, etc. ;] a beaten track, a path: Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, Luk.3:4" (LXX) .† (AS)
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5147 (τρίβος) appears 64 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
51 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And let Dan be a serpent in the way, Besetting the path, Biting the heel of the horse (And the rider shall fall backward),
The stars from heaven set themselves in array, They set themselves to fight with Sisera out of their paths.
And the cows went straight on the way to the way of Beth-shemesh, they went along one track; and labored, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after it as far as the coasts of Beth-shemesh.
11 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
He is grievous unto us even to behold: For his life is not like other men’s, His ways are of another fashion.
We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: Yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: But as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.
For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, Showeth herself favorably unto them in the ways, And meeteth them in every thought.
First 65 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5147.
And let Dan be a serpent in the way, Besetting the path, Biting the heel of the horse (And the rider shall fall backward),
The stars from heaven set themselves in array, They set themselves to fight with Sisera out of their paths.
And the cows went straight on the way to the way of Beth-shemesh, they went along one track; and labored, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after it as far as the coasts of Beth-shemesh.
And Amasa was weltering in blood in the midst of the way. And a man saw that all the people stood still; and he removed Amasa out of the path into a field, and he cast a garment upon him, because he saw everyone that came to him standing still.
And when he was quickly removed from the road, every man of Israel passed after Joab to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
His snare is hidden in the earth, And that which shall take him is by the path.
Wilt thou not mark the old way, Which righteous men have trodden?
There is a path, the fowl has not known it, Neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:
They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; They have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
My paths are ruined; For they have stripped off my raiment: He has shot at me with his weapons.
Yea, he renders to a man accordingly as each of them does, And in a man’s path he will find him.
If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, And if also thou knowest their paths;
The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, The creatures passing through the paths of the sea.
Direct my steps in thy paths, That my steps slip not.
The strange children waxed old, And fell away from their paths through lameness.
He has restored my soul: He has guided me into the paths of righteousness, For his name’s sake.
Show me thy ways, O Lord; And teach me thy paths.
Teach me, O Lord, in thy way, And guide me in a right path, because of mine enemies.
And our heart has not gone back; But thou hast turned aside our paths from thy way.
Thy way is in the sea, And thy paths in many waters, And thy footsteps cannot be known.
Guide me in the path of thy commandments; For I have delighted in it.
Thy law is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my paths.
Prove me, O God, and know my heart; Examine me, and know my paths;
The proud have hidden a snare for me, And have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; They set a stumbling block for me near the path. Pause.
When my spirit was fainting within me, Then thou knewest my paths; In the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me.
Go not in the way with them, But turn aside thy foot from their paths:
Whose paths are crooked, And their courses winding;
None that go by her shall return, Neither shall they take hold of right paths, For they are not apprehended of the years of life.
For had they gone in good paths, They would have found the paths of righteousness easy.
And all her paths are peaceful.
I walk in ways of righteousness, And am conversant with the paths of judgment;
But a wise man proceeds on his way aright.
The paths of life turn aside from evil; And the ways of righteousness are length of life. He that receives instruction shall be in prosperity; And he that regards reproofs shall be made wise. He that keeps his ways, preserves his own soul; And he that loves his life will spare his mouth.
the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.
O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.
and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of Israel.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.
Thus saith the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty water;
saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.
And I will make every mountain a way, and every path a pasture to them.
And thy old waste desert places shall be built up, and thy foundations shall last through all generations; and thou shalt be called a repairer of breaches, and thou shalt cause thy paths between to be in peace.
and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.
Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in them.
Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for want of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.
For my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, leaving the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;
He has built up my ways, He has hedged my paths;
Now therefore I Nebuchadnezzar praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all his works are true, and his paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.
As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:
And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall show us his way, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
He is grievous unto us even to behold: For his life is not like other men’s, His ways are of another fashion.
We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: Yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: But as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.
For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, Showeth herself favorably unto them in the ways, And meeteth them in every thought.
For so the ways of them which lived on the earth were reformed, And men were taught the things that are pleasing unto thee, And were saved through wisdom.
When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath, She guided him in right paths, showed him the kingdom of God, And gave him knowledge of holy things, Made him rich in his travails, And multiplied the fruit of his labors.
But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: For thou hast made a way in the sea, And a safe path in the waves;
Woe be to fearful hearts, and faint hands, And the sinner that goeth two ways!
nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way.
The Hagarites that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Merran and of Teman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths.
No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.
They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5147, grouped by book.
Tribos (Strong's G5147) is a Greek word most simply glossed "path". tribos (tree'-bos) n. 1. a rut or worn track [from tribo "to rub" (akin to teiro, truo, and the base of G5131, G5134)]
This page currently indexes 65 linked usages for Strong's G5147 across 20 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5147 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as paths, way, ways, path, lord, and man. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 51 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 11 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5147, with linked reader references where each row is available.