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title: שְׁבִיל — way · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁבִיל (7635), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: way. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁבִיל

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«שְׁבִיל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **way** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 7635 · **BDB:** שְׁבוּל

### Glosses

path (1); paths (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

way [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7635/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁבִיל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7635/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 77:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.20/)

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בַּיָּ֤ם דַּרְכֶּ֗ךָ וּֽ֭שְׁבִֽילְךָ בְּמַ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים וְ֝עִקְּבוֹתֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א נֹדָֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].in the sea way your and path your \[was\].in waters many and footprints your not they.were.known

*JPS 1917:* Thy way was in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps were not known.

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[Jeremiah 18:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.15/)

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כִּֽי־שְׁכֵחֻ֥נִי עַמִּ֖י לַשָּׁ֣וְא יְקַטֵּ֑רוּ וַיַּכְשִׁל֤וּם בְּדַרְכֵיהֶם֙ שְׁבִילֵ֣י עוֹלָ֔ם לָלֶ֣כֶת נְתִיב֔וֹת דֶּ֖רֶךְ לֹ֥א סְלוּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they have.forgotten.me people my to (the) falsehood they.make.smoke and they have.caused.them.to.stumble in ways their paths of.antiquity to walk paths a.way not cast.up

*JPS 1917:* For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

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