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byways

Meaning of “byways”

Side roads, lesser paths, or ways apart from the principal highways.

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First occurrence: Judges 5:6

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Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Judges 5:6 · retained source text

In the dayes of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the dayes of Iael, the high wayes were vnoccupied, and the traueilers walked thorow by-wayes.

1611 marginal noteHebr. walkers of paths.

1611 marginal noteHebr. crooked wayes.

1611 marginal noteChap. 3.31.

1611 marginal noteChap. 4.18.

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