highway
me.sil.lah denotes a traveled or prepared route, also used for moral, poetic, and envisioned paths.
The term most often identifies a road or prepared route used for travel, movement, or a named location; it also appears in poetic, moral, and prophetic descriptions of paths to be followed, prepared, raised, or corrupted.
Senses in use
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Traveled or prepared route · dominant
In Numbers 20:19 the singular absolute form names the route Israel proposes to use in passing through the land. In 1 Samuel 6:12 it marks the single route on which the heifers go straight without turning, while Judges 20:31 and Judges 21:19 place such routes between named places. In 2 Samuel 20:12 the same singular form locates Amasa in the midst of the route and then contrasts the route with the field.
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Poetic, moral, or envisioned path · common
In Proverbs 16:17 the construct singular occurs in the statement that the upright person's route turns aside from harm. Isaiah 40:3 and Isaiah 62:10 use the singular absolute form in calls to prepare and build up a route, and Isaiah 49:11 speaks of routes being exalted. In Isaiah 59:7, plural construct forms occur where violence and breaking are described on their routes.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “highway,” while related clauses use “way,” “roads,” and, in Judges 5:20, “courses.” In 2 Chronicles 9:11 it renders the relevant clause with “steps”; these renderings reflect whole-verse translation rather than a word-by-word alignment.