HebrewH4546Noun (Feminine)

מְסִלָּה

me.sil.lah

25Occurrences
H4546Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

from H5549 (סָלַל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
highway, raised way, public road

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

מְסִלָּה appears 25 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
9
Judges
5
1 Chronicles
2
2 Samuel
2
1 Samuel
1
2 Chronicles
1
2 Kings
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 26:16BSB

The lots for the West Gate and the Shallecheth Gate on the ascending highway fell to Shuppim and Hosah.There were guards stationed at every watch.

2 Samuel 20:12BSB

But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.

Isaiah 36:2BSB

And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

Isaiah 7:3BSB

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,

Judges 5:20BSB

From the heavens the stars fought;from their courses they fought against Sisera.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.