Causeway; Causey

koz'-wa, ko'-zi (more correctly ): This word occurs in 1 Chr 26:16; 1 Chr 26:18 for the Hebrew mecillah; Septuagint pastophorion tes anabaseos. In 2 Chr 9:11 the word is translated "terraces" (Septuagint anabaseis). Compare BDB, under the word, where mecilloth, is an error for mic`adhoth (1 Kgs 10:12). In all the above passages reference is made to a series or flight of steps leading up into the temple. The word also signifies a prepared, traveled road, as in Num 20:19; Judg 20:31 f,45; 1 Sam 6:12; 2 Sam 20:12 f; 2 Kgs 18:17 (Isa 36:2); Isa 7:3; Isa 11:16; Isa 19:23; Isa 33:8; Isa 40:3; Isa 49:11; Jer 31:21.

Figurative: In Isa 59:7 the word (mecillah) occurs in a figurative sense, so also in Judg 5:20; Prov 16:17.

W. N. Stearns