H4546 - מְסִלָּה (mᵉçillâh) | SermonIndex

H4546 מְסִלָּה (mᵉçillâh) mes-il-law'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

highway

Strong's Definition

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

Derivation: from H5549 (סָלַל);

KJV Usage: causeway, course, highway, path, terrace.

TWOT Reference: 1506d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) highway, raised way, public road

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3598 G5010 G5147

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

highway, raised way, public road

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מְסִלָּה mesillâh BDB Definition: 1) highway, raised way, public road Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5549 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1506d Total KJV Occurrences: 27

Bible Occurrences (26)

20:19

5:20 20:31 20:32 20:45 21:19

6:12

20:12 20:13

18:17

26:16 26:18

9:11

84:5

16:17

7:3 11:16 19:23 33:8 36:2 40:3 49:11 59:7 62:10

31:21

2:8

Numbers 20:19

We will stay on the main road, the Israelites... replied -, and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.

Judges 5:20

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

Judges 20:31

The Benjamites... came out against [them] and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before..., killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

Judges 20:32

We are defeating them as before......, said the Benjamites.... But the Israelites... said, Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.

Judges 20:45

Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 {}... men on the roads. And they overtook them... at Gidom and struck down... 2,000 more....

Judges 21:19

But look, they said, there is a yearly... feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which [is] north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.

1 Samuel 6:12

And the cows headed straight up the road toward... Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went..., never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

2 Samuel 20:12

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 -.

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