noun · feminine
tribas
Strong’sG5147
a worn path, beaten way
stem trib-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
τρίβος, -ου, -ἡ
(< τρίβω), [in LXX for מְסִלָּה, נָתִיב, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5147 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
but ὁ in Refs 5th c.BC+: (τρίβω):— worn or beaten track, ἐν τρίβῳ μάλιστα οἰκημένοι in the path (of the war), Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ τ. τῆς ἀτραποῦ the track of the path, Refs 1st c.BC+; διασχισθέντες [τῆς ὁδοῦ] τρίβῳ τινί by following a track, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, path, Refs 3rd c.BC+track, Refs 4th c.BC+
II rubbing, attrition, Refs; τ. κρηπῖδος the rubbing of a shoe, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 socket, friction-joint, ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ βραχίονος.. τρίβον ἑωυτῇ πεποιημένη Refs 5th c.BC+; area of friction or pressure of a bandage, Refs
II.3 delay, Refs 4th c.BC+
III bodily exercise, Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | tribas | tribais |
| object accusative | triban | tribain3×τρίβους |
| direct address vocative | tribar | tribair |
| of, belonging to genitive | tribau | tribaiu |
| to, for dative | triba | tribai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
triba is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
tribain“paths”objectaccusative plural3×
Matthew 3:3… tan hodan kuriou, euthuain poiavōr tain tribain autou.… way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
Mark 1:3… tan hodan kuriou, euthuain poiavōr tain tribain autou,… way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
Luke 3:4… tan hodan kuriou, euthuain poiavōr tain tribain autou.… way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.