τρίβος, τρίβου, ἡ (τρίβῳ to rub), a worn way, a path: Mat_3:3; Mar_1:3; Luk_3:4, from Isa_40:3. (Homer hymn. Merc. 448; Herodotus, Euripides, Xenophon, others; the Sept. for πΐϊΔιαΘδ, ΰΙψΗη, ξΐρΔμΘΜδ, γΖΜψΖκ, etc.)

τρίβος tribos 3x a beaten track; a road, highway, Mat_3:3 ; Mar_1:3 ; Luk_3:4

τρίβος , -ου , -ἡ ( < τρίβω ), [in LXX for H4546 , H5410 , etc.;] a beaten track, a path: Mat_3:3 , Mar_1:3 , Luk_3:4 ( LXX ).†

τρίβος [page 641] a beaten track, apath ( Mat_3:3 al ., cf. Sir_2:2 ) occurs in CPR I. 42 .14 (ἀρούρας ) δ̄ ἐκ λιβὸς τρίβου , 4 arourae to the west of the path. See also the metrical inscr. of B.C. 145 116, Archiv i. p. 221 .21 f. καὶ σοὶ δ᾽ εὐοδίης τρίβον ὄλβιον εὔχομαι εἶναι , πρός γ᾽ ἔτι καὶ τέκνοις σοῖσι φιλοφροσύνοις . For the verb τρίβω , see P Par 49 .22 (before B.C. 161) (= UPZ i. p. 309) ὅπως λαβὼν παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἐν Μέμφει σησάμου τέταρτον τρίψῃ μοι ἐν Μέμφει τρίμμα , P Oxy II. 234 ii. 16 (medical prescription ii/iii A.D.) ῥοῶν κυτίνους μεμυκότας τρίψας , pound some closed calices of pomegranates (Edd.), ib . IX. 1222 .2 (iv/A.D.) δὸς τῷ ἀδελφῷ . . . τὸ ἅλας τὸ ἀμ <μ >ωνιακὸν τὸ τετριμ <μ >ένον καὶ τὸ ἄτριπτον , give your brother the salt of ammonia, both the pounded and the unpounded (Ed.), and P Flor III. 378 .19 (v/A.D. ?) τὰ ἱμάτιά μοι ἐτρίβη . See also Herodas V. 62 τοῖς σφυροῖσι τρίβοντα , burnishing with your ancles certain Achaean wares (a euphemism for fetters : sc . πέδας ).

τρίβος τρί^βος, ἡ, "a worn or beaten track, the high road, highway", Hdt. , Eur. : "a footpath", Xen. "rubbing, attrition", Aesch. metaph. "delay", id=Aesch.

τρίβος, -ου, -ἡ (τρίβω), [in LXX for מְסִלָּה, נָתִיב, etc. ;] a beaten track, a path: Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, Luk.3:4" (LXX) .† (AS)