מְסִלָּה mesillah
Hebrew word for “highway” · Strong’s H4546 · used 27 times in 26 verses
Meaning
highway, raised way, public road
How it is translated
Glosses given for mesillah in context, with how often each is used:
- highway 17
- highways 7
- tracks 1
- whom highways 1
- track 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Judges | 5 | 0.5 | |
| 2 Samuel | 3 | 0.3 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Numbers | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Joel | 1 | 1.0 |
Chapters where it is used most
Judges 20 (3), 2 Samuel 20 (2), 1 Chronicles 26 (2), Numbers 20 (1), Judges 5 (1), Judges 21 (1), 1 Samuel 6 (1), 2 Kings 18 (1), 2 Chronicles 9 (1), Psalms 84 (1)
Forms
- המסלה 4
- במסלה 3
- למסלה 3
- מסלות 3
- מסלה 3
- במסלות 2
- במסלת 2
- מסלת 2
- ממסלותם 1
- המסלות 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with mesillah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- תְּעָלָה tealah “conduit” 3
- בְּרֵכָה berekhah “pool” 3
- דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 6
- מִן־ min “from” 7
- שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 5
- אַשּׁוּר ashshur “Assyria” 4
- עָלָה alah “to ascend” 6
- כָּבַס kavas “to wash” 3
- עֶלְיוֹן elyon “Most High” 3
- פָּנָה panah “to turn” 3
- עָבַר avar “to pass” 4
- מַעֲרָב maarav “west” 2
Key verses
The verses using mesillah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Judges 21:19 — Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that…
- 2 Kings 18:17 — And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to…
- Psalms 84:5 — Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
- Proverbs 16:17 — The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
- Isaiah 7:3 — Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the…
- Isaiah 11:16 — And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the…
- Isaiah 19:23 — In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall…
- Isaiah 33:8 — The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- Isaiah 40:3 — The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
- Isaiah 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
- Isaiah 62:10 — Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
- Jeremiah 31:21 — Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to…
See all 26 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.