τρίβος
path
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5147 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“path” is the headline sense of the Greek noun τριβος (tríbos). It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. First canonically at Matthew 3:3, it enters the text early. It clusters with τραγος and θλιβω under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5147 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Paths 3×
- American Standard Version: Paths 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Paths 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Paths 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5147 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5147 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5147 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5147 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a worn way, a path
Word origin
Derived from τραγος (trágos) (G5131) — male goat.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5147, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τριβος appears 52 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 50 verses in 13 books.
- 52
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 50
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 49:17 τρίβος
- Judges 5:20 τρίβος
- 1 Samuel 6:12 τρίβος
- 2 Samuel 20:12 τρίβος
- Job 18:10 τρίβος
- Psalms 8:9 τρίβος
- Proverbs 1:15 τρίβος
- Isaiah 3:12 τρίβος
- Jeremiah 6:16 τρίβος
- Lamentations 3:9 τρίβος
- Hosea 2:8 τρίβος
- Joel 2:7 τρίβος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5147) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 49:17 τρίβος Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.
- Judges 5:20 τρίβος From the sky the stars fought, From their courses they fought against Sisera.
- 1 Samuel 6:12 τρίβος The cattle took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
- 2 Samuel 20:12 τρίβος Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
- 2 Samuel 20:13 τρίβος When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- Job 18:10 τρίβος A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.
- Job 22:15 τρίβος Will you keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden,
- Job 28:7 τρίβος That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
- Job 30:12 τρίβος On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
- Job 30:13 τρίβος They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone's help.
- Job 34:11 τρίβος For the work of a man will he render to him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.
- Job 38:20 τρίβος That you should take it to the bound of it, That you should discern the paths to the house of it?
- Psalms 8:9 τρίβος Yahweh, our Lord, How majestic is your name in all the earth!
- Psalms 16:5 τρίβος Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
- Psalms 17:46 τρίβος
- Psalms 22:3 τρίβος But you are holy, You who inhabit the praises of Israel.
- Psalms 24:4 τρίβος He who has clean hands and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully.
- Psalms 26:11 τρίβος But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
- Psalms 43:19 τρίβος
- Psalms 76:20 τρίβος
- Psalms 118:35 τρίβος
- Psalms 118:105 τρίβος
- Psalms 138:23 τρίβος
- Psalms 139:6 τρίβος This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
- Psalms 141:4 τρίβος Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
- Proverbs 1:15 τρίβος My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,
- Proverbs 2:15 τρίβος Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
- Proverbs 2:19 τρίβος None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:
- Proverbs 2:20 τρίβος That you may walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
- Proverbs 3:17 τρίβος Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
- Proverbs 8:20 τρίβος I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
- Proverbs 15:21 τρίβος Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
- Proverbs 16:13 τρίβος Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
- Proverbs 30:19 τρίβος The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent on a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.
- Isaiah 3:12 τρίβος As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.
- Isaiah 30:11 τρίβος get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
- Isaiah 40:3 τρίβος The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.
- Isaiah 42:16 τρίβος I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 43:16 τρίβος Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
- Isaiah 49:9 τρίβος saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
- Isaiah 49:11 τρίβος I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
- Isaiah 58:12 τρίβος Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
- Isaiah 59:8 τρίβος The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
- Jeremiah 6:16 τρίβος Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].
- Jeremiah 9:9 τρίβος Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jeremiah 18:15 τρίβος For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
- Lamentations 3:9 τρίβος He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
- Hosea 2:8 τρίβος For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
- Joel 2:7 τρίβος They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.
- Micah 4:2 τρίβος Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, And to the house of the God of Jacob; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5147) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
