Highway
מְסִלָּהStrong’s H4546mesillah (me-sil-lah)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mesillah is the Hebrew word usually translated “highway”, “on the highway” and “highways”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet.”
Meaning
- Highway, raised way, public road
How it's translated
- the highway 4
- a highway 3
- on the highway 2
- in the highways 2
- on highway of 2
- highways 2
- highway of 2
- from highways their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 9
- Judges 5
- 2 Samuel 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Numbers 1
- 1 Samuel 1
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 5:20They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
- Judges 20:31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
- Judges 20:32And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
- Judges 20:45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
- Judges 21:19Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
- 1 Samuel 6:12And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
Hebrew dictionary
מְסִלָּה mesillah · highway
highway, raised way, public road
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “highway” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HIGHWA'Y, noun
A public road; a way open to all passengers; so called, either because it is a great or public road, or because the earth was raised to form a dry path. Highways open a communication from one city or town to another.
- Course; road; train of action.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.