מְסִלָּה
me.sil.lah
“highway”
Definition
a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase
from H5549 (סָלַל);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
מְסִלָּה appears 25 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
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.
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.
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,
From the heavens the stars fought;from their courses they fought against Sisera.
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