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Highway

מְסִלָּהStrong’s H4546

mesillah (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.”
Numbers 20:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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Explore in Scripture
All 26 verses, by book
Numbers 1
20:19
1 Samuel 1
6:12
2 Samuel 2
20:1220:13
2 Kings 1
18:17
1 Chronicles 2
26:1626:18
2 Chronicles 1
9:11
Psalms 1
84:5
Proverbs 1
16:17
Jeremiah 1
31:21
Joel 1
2:8
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.

  1. 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.