nativ · path

What it means

nativ (נָתִיב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “path”.

A narrow way marked out by people's steps.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A narrow track; or a way of life.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• paths ×13
• path ×7
• pathway ×4
• byways ×1
• trails ×1

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Job×7
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×6
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Hosea×1

• Judges 5:6

  In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the paths ceased, and those who walked on trails went by crooked paths.

• Job 18:10

  Hidden in the earth is his cord, and his snaring device on the path.

• Job 19:8

  He has fenced in my path, and I do not pass; and on my paths he sets darkness.

• Job 24:13

  They are among those who rebel against the light; they do not recognize its ways, and do not remain in its paths.

• Job 28:7

  A path that the bird of prey does not know, nor has the eye of the falcon looked on it;

• Job 30:13

  They break up my path; they further my calamity, with no one helping them.

• Job 38:20

  that you may take it to its territory, and that you may discern the paths to its house?

• Job 41:32

  Behind it it makes shine a path; one would take the deep for gray hair.

• Psalms 78:50

  He leveled a path for his anger; he did not hold back their soul from death, and their life to the pestilence he gave over.

• Psalms 119:35

  Lead me in the pathway of your commandments, for in it I take pleasure.

• Psalms 119:105

  A lamp to my feet is your word, and a light to my pathway.

• Psalms 142:3

  When my spirit grows faint within me, you know my pathway; in the path where I walk they have hidden a snare for me.

• Proverbs 1:15

  my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their path;

• Proverbs 3:17

  Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

• Proverbs 7:25

  Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

• Proverbs 8:2

  At the top of the heights, beside the way, where the paths meet she takes her stand;

• Proverbs 8:20

  In the path of righteousness I walk, in the midst of the paths of justice,

• Proverbs 12:28

  In the path of righteousness is life, and the way of its pathway is no death.

• Isaiah 42:16

  And I will lead the blind by a way that they have not known; in paths that they have not known I will make them tread; I will make the dark places before them into light, and the crooked places into a plain. These things I will do, and I will not abandon them.

• Isaiah 43:16

  Thus says YHWH, who makes in the sea a way, and in mighty waters a path;

• Isaiah 58:12

  And those from you will build the ancient ruins; the foundations of generation after generation you will raise up; and you will be called ‘Repairer of breaches, restorer of paths to live in.’

• Isaiah 59:8

  The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their tracks; their paths they have made crooked for themselves; everyone who walks on them does not know peace.

• Jeremiah 6:16

  Thus says YHWH: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

• Jeremiah 18:15

  For my people has forgotten me; to what is vain they burn incense, and they have made them stumble in their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in byways, a road not built up,

• Lamentations 3:9

  He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made crooked my paths.

• Hosea 2:6

  Therefore, look, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I will build her wall, and she will not find her paths.