Lexical Definition

‎מְסִלָּה‎ mᵉçillâh (mes-il-law') highway ^H:N-F
from ‎סָלַל‎

causeway, course, highway, path, terrace.

• a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively
• specifically a viaduct, a staircase

1) highway, raised way, public road

See Greek: ὁδός · τάξις · τρίβος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מְסִלָּה‎ noun feminine highway; — ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Isa 11:16 + 12 t.; construct ‎מְסִלַּת‎ Isa 7:3 + 3 t.; suffix ‎מְסִלָּתוֺ‎ Joel 2:8 plural ‎מְסִלּוֺת‎ Isa 33:8 + 5 t.; suffix ‎מְסִלֹּתַי‎ Isa 49:11 ‎מְסִלּוֺתָם‎ Judg 5:20; Isa 59:7 — raised way, highway, public road (never of street in city) Num 20:19; Judg 20:31; Judg 20:32; Judg 20:45; Judg 21:19; 1Sam 6:12; 2Sam 20:12 (twice in verse); 2Sam 20:13; 2Kgs 18:17 = Isa 36:2; 1Chr 26:16; 1Chr 26:18; Isa 7:3; Isa 11:16; Isa 19:23; Isa 33:8; Isa 49:11; Isa 59:7; Jer 31:21 ‎׳‎‎ישּׁר מ‎ Isa 40:3 ‎׳‎‎סלל מ‎ Isa 62:10 in a figurative sense, of the courses of the stars Judg 5:20 the march of locusts Joel 2:8 the conduct of the upright Prov 16:17 of the ascents to Zion in the mind of the pious Ps 84:6* (ᵐ5: Bae reads ‎מַעֲלוֺת‎). — In 2Chr 9:11 ‎מסלות‎ is error for ‎מִסְעָד (ותׅ‎ of || 1Kgs 10:12.

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