{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4546",
  "lemma": "מְסִלָּה",
  "transliteration": "mᵉçillâh",
  "definition": "a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase",
  "kjv": "causeway, course, highway, path, terrace.",
  "occurrences": 27,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H5549",
      "lemma": "סָלַל",
      "transliteration": "çâlal",
      "meaning": "to mound up",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H5549"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "מְסִלָּה n.f. highway"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 20:19",
      "text": "The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 5:20",
      "text": "From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 20:31",
      "text": "The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/20?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 20:32",
      "text": "The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/20?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 20:45",
      "text": "They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/20?v=45"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 21:19",
      "text": "They said, “Behold, there is a feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/21?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:12",
      "text": "The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 20:12",
      "text": "Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 20:13",
      "text": "When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 18:17",
      "text": "The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/18?v=17"
    }
  ],
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