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ma'gal מַעְגָּל ma'gal

A WHEEL-TRACK, a rut — from agol, round. Not an abstract 'path' but the groove worn into ground by traffic that has already gone that way. So ma'gelei tzedek (Psalm 23:3) are worn tracks of righteousness, a route that is already there rather than a moral abstraction; the NWT alone on the shelf prints 'tracks.' The same noun is all over Proverbs for the course a life actually runs. → first discussed at Psalms 23:3