שְׁבוּל
way
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7635 appears in the Book of Psalms — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms
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.
שביל — transliterated shâbîyl — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “way.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. More than half of its appearances fall in Psalms. It first appears in Psalms 77:19. Related forms include שבל, שבל and שבלול. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7635 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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: Path 1×, Paths 1×
- American Standard Version: Paths 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Roads 1×, Way 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Path 1×, Paths of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7635 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7635 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7635 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7635 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- way, path
Word origin
[ שְׁבוּל, שְׁבִיל ] n.[m.] way, path (prop. as flowing along, stretching out ?)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שבל (shôbel) (H7640) — flowing skirt.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שְׁבִיל
- , Shaf. of יָבַל) path. Peah II, 1 ש׳ הרבים a public path through fields; ש׳ היחיד a private path, contrad. to דרך. Ex. R. s. 25 ב"וד עושה לו ש׳ בדרך שמא … ש׳ בים a human being makes himself a path on trodden ground, can he make himself a path in the sea?; a. fr.—Pl. שְׁבִילִים, שְׁבִילִין. B. Kam. 81ᵃ ומהלכים בשְׁבִילֵי הרשות וכ׳ it is allowed to walk on private paths (through fields) until the second rainfall (v. רְבִיעָה); Taan. 6ᵇ; Tosef. Shebi. VII, 18 ש׳ שבשדות. Lev. R. s. 4 היו לפניו שני ש׳ וכ׳ if a person had before him two paths, one smooth &c. Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵃ bot. התורה הזו דומה לשני ש׳ וכ׳ the Torah is like two paths, the one of fire, the other of snow &c. Tanḥ. T’rumah 8 (ref. to Prov. V, 6) שְׁבִילֶיהָ של תורה וכ׳ the paths of the Torah and its sections; a. e.—Naz. 8ᵇ מנין שבילי שמיטה Var. (v. Rashi) as many as the field paths in the Sabbatical year (ed. שבלי).—בִּשְׁבִיל on account of, for the sake of; because. Ber. 58ᵃ בִּשְׁבִילִי for my sake. Ib. בש׳ אשתו ובניו for his wife and children. Taan. 20ᵃ בִּשְׁבִילְךָ for thy sake. Ib. 20ᵇ בִּשְׁבִילְכֶם for your sake. Sabb. II, 4 בש׳ שתהא מנטפת in order that it may drip. Ib. 5 בש׳ החולה שישן for the sake of a patient, that he may sleep. Succ. 29ᵃ בש׳ ארבעה דברים for four reasons. Sot. 46ᵇ בש׳ שכנעני וכ׳ because this Canaanite showed the way with his finger. Num. R. s. 36 שלחה בש׳ וכ׳ she sent for R. J.; a. v. fr. e.g. Proverbs 5:6
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H7635 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ו/שבילי/ך | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 77:19 | 1 |
| וּֽ֭/שְׁבִֽילְ/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 77:19 | 1 |
| שְׁבִילֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 18:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7635, 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
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
