Lexical Summary mesillah: a highway Original Word: מְסִלָּהTransliteration: mesillah Phonetic Spelling: (mes-il-law') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a highway Meaning: a thoroughfare, a viaduct, a staircase Strong's Concordance causeway, course, highway, path, terrace From calal; a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase -- causeway, course, highway, path, terrace. see HEBREW calal Brown-Driver-Briggs H4546. mesillah מְסִלָּה noun feminine highway; — ׳מ Isaiah 11:16 12t.; construct מְסִלַּת 7:3 3t.; suffix מְסִלָּתוֺ Joel 2:8; plural מְסִלּוֺת Isaiah 33:8 5t.; suffix מְסִלֹּתַי 49:11; מְסִלּוֺתָם Judges 5:20; Isaiah 59:7; — raised way, highway, public road (never of street in city) Numbers 20:19; Judges 20:31-32, 45; 21:19; 1 Samuel 6:12; 2 Samuel 20:12 (twice in verse); 20:13; 2 Kings 18:17 = Isaiah 36:2; 1 Chronicles 26:16, 18; Isaiah 7:3; 11:16; 19:23; 33:8; 49:11; 59:7; Jeremiah 31:21; מ ׳ישּׁר Isaiah 40:3; מ ׳סלל 62:10; in a figurative sense, of the courses of the stars Judges 5:20; the march of locusts Joel 2:8; the conduct of the upright Proverbs 16:17; of the ascents to Zion in the mind of the pious Psalm 84:6 (ᵐ5: Bae reads מַעֲלוֺת). — In 2 Chronicles 9:11 מסלות is error for (ותׅ מִסְעָד of "" 1 Kings 10:12. |
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