Magal מַעְגָּל

Magal (Hebrew מַעְגָּל, Strong's H4570) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “track”. It occurs 16 times in 16 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Magal, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 17:20
  And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
• 1 Samuel 26:5
  And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.
• 1 Samuel 26:7
  So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.

Psalms

• Psalm 17:5
  Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
• Psalm 23:3
  He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
• Psalm 65:11
  Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
• Psalm 140:5
  The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

Proverbs

• Proverbs 2:9
  Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
• Proverbs 2:15
  Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
• Proverbs 2:18
  For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
• Proverbs 4:11
  I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
• Proverbs 4:26
  Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
• Proverbs 5:6
  Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
• Proverbs 5:21
  For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 26:7
  The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
• Isaiah 59:8
  The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).