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title: מְסִלָּה — highway · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְסִלָּה (4546), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 27 times: highway. BDB 1906: n.f. highway. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְסִלָּה

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«מְסִלָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **highway** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 27 times · **Key:** 4546 · **BDB:** מְסִלָּה²

### Glosses

highway (10); highways (7); a.highway (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְסִלָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4546/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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