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# מְסִלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4546

**highway** — used 27 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

highway [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4546/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְסִלָּה²: n.f. highway [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4546/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. highway;—מ׳ Is 11:16 + 12 times; cstr. מְסִלַּת Is 7:3 + 3 times; sf. מְסִלָּתוֹ Jo 2:8; pl. מְסִלּוֹת Is 33:8 + 5 times; sf. מְסִלֹּתַי Is 49:11; מְסִלּוֹתָם Ju 5:20; Is 59:7;—raised way, highway, public road (never of street in city) Nu 20:19; Ju 20:31, 32, 45; 21:19; 1 S 6:12; 2 S 20:12(×2), 13; 2 K 18:17 = Is 36:2, 1 Ch 26:16, 18; Is 7:3; 11:16; 19:23; 33:8; 49:11; 59:7; Je 31:21; ישּׁר מ׳ Is 40:3; סלל מ׳ Is 62:10; in a fig. sense, of the courses of the stars Ju 5:20; the march of locusts Jo 2:8; the conduct of the upright Pr 16:17; of the ascents to Zion in the mind of the pious ψ 84:6 (𝔊: Bae reads מַעֲלוֹת).—In 2 Ch 9:11 מסלות is error for מִסְעָד(ות) of ‖ 1 K 10:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 26 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: highway (10); highways (7); a highway (4).

## In the verses

[Judges 5:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.20/#tree)

מִן־שָׁמַ֖יִם נִלְחָ֑מוּ הַכּֽוֹכָבִים֙ מִמְּסִלּוֹתָ֔ם נִלְחֲמ֖וּ עִם־סִיסְרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* from heaven they.fought the stars from highways their they.fought with Sisera

*JPS 1917:* They fought from heaven, the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

[Psalms 84:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.6/#tree)

אַשְׁרֵ֣י אָ֭דָם עֽוֹז־ל֥וֹ בָ֑ךְ מְ֝סִלּ֗וֹת בִּלְבָבָֽם׃

*Word for word:* how.blessed! \[is\].a.person \[who\].strength \[belongs\].to him in you \[who\].highways \[are\].in heart their

*JPS 1917:* Happy is the man whose strength is in Thee; in whose heart are the highways.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4546.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4546/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).