Original Word: τρίβος, ου, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: tribos
Phonetic Spelling: (tree'-bos)
Definition: a beaten track, a path
Usage: a worn path, beaten way, road, highway.

5147 tríbos (from tribō, "to rub") – properly, a rut (path) formed by rubbing (constant use); (figuratively) the "route" established by the Lord, where people can best know Him. This is also a regular path that all saints must travel in their spiritual journey (romance) of knowing God. It is the "road of faith," which God equally extends to all people, so all can know Him for who He really is (personally grasping His attributes, cf. Mal 3:6; Heb 13:8).

Word Origin
from tribó (to rub, thresh out)
Definition
a beaten track, a path
NASB Translation
paths (3).

STRONGS NT 5147: τρίβος

τρίβος, τρίβου, ἡ (τρίβῳ to rub), a worn way, a path: Matthew 3:3; Mark 1:3; Luke 3:4, from Isaiah 40:3. (Homer hymn. Merc. 448; Herodotus, Euripides, Xenophon, others; the Sept. for נְתִיבָה, אֹרַח, מְסִלָּה, דֶּרֶך, etc.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

path.

From tribo (to "rub"; akin to teiro, truo, and the base of tragos, trauma); a rut or worn track -- path.

see GREEK tragos

see GREEK trauma

Forms and Transliterations

έτριβον τετριμμέναι τρίβοι τρίβοις τρίβον τρίβος τριβου τρίβου τριβους τρίβους τρίβουσι τρίβω τρίβων τριετής τριέτους τρίψον tribous tríbous

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