mesila · highway

What it means

mesila (מְסִלָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “highway”.

A main road, raised and leveled.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A main road, well built.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• highway ×16
• highways ×7
• causeway ×2
• causeways ×1
• courses ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Judges×5
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×1

• Numbers 20:19

  And the sons of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay its price. Only it is nothing: let me pass through on foot.”

• Judges 5:20

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

• Judges 20:31

  And the sons of Benjamin went out to meet the people; they were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike some of the people, leaving them dead, as at other times, on the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and one to Gibeah in the field: about thirty men of Israel.

• Judges 20:32

  And the sons of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us as at the first.” But the sons of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”

• Judges 20:45

  And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the crag of Rimmon; and they gleaned of them on the highways five thousand men, and they pursued closely after him as far as Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.

• Judges 21:19

  And they said, “Look, there is the feast of YHWH in Shiloh from year to year, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

• 1 Samuel 6:12

  And the cows went straight on the road, on the road to Beth-shemesh; along one highway they went, going and lowing, and they did not turn aside to the right or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines were walking after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.

• 2 Samuel 20:12

  Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stopped, he moved Amasa from the highway into the field and threw a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stopped.

• 2 Samuel 20:13

  When he was removed from the highway, every man went on after Joab to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.

• 2 Kings 18:17

  The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large force to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem; they went up and came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.

• 1 Chronicles 26:16

  For Shuppim and for Hosah, the west, by the gate of Shallecheth on the causeway that goes up, guard alongside guard.

• 1 Chronicles 26:18

  At the Parbar on the west, four at the causeway and two at the Parbar.

• 2 Chronicles 9:11

  The king made of the algum wood causeways for the house of YHWH and for the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers; none like them had been seen before in the land of Judah.

• Psalms 84:5

  Happy is the man whose strength is in you, highways are in their heart.

• Proverbs 16:17

  The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; whoever watches his way guards his soul.

• Isaiah 7:3

  And YHWH said to Isaiah, “Go out, please, to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderer’s Field,

• Isaiah 11:16

  And there will be a highway for the remnant of his people that remains from Assyria, as there was for Israel on the day they came up from the land of Egypt.

• Isaiah 19:23

  On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria; and Egypt will serve with Assyria.

• Isaiah 33:8

  The highways are desolate; the traveler on the path has ceased. He has broken the covenant, he has despised cities, he has no regard for mortals.

• Isaiah 36:2

  The king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah with a large force; and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.

• Isaiah 40:3

  A voice calls out: “In the wilderness clear the way of YHWH; make straight in the Arabah a highway for our Elohim.

• Isaiah 49:11

  And I will make all my mountains into a road, and my highways will be raised up.

• Isaiah 59:7

  Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; devastation and shattering are on their highways.

• Isaiah 62:10

  Pass through, pass through the gates! Clear the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones! Lift up a banner over the peoples!

• Jeremiah 31:21

  Set up for yourself road markers; put up for yourself guideposts; set your heart on the highway, the way by which you went. Return, virgin of Israel, return to these your cities.

• Joel 2:8

  And one does not push his brother; each man marches on his highway; and through the weapons they fall, but they do not break off.

And 1 more times.