re.khes denotes uneven terrain in Isaiah’s vision of the landscape being leveled.

The attested use denotes uneven ground within Isaiah’s sequence in which valleys are raised, mountains and hills are lowered, and the landscape is made level.

1. Uneven terrain being leveled · dominant

   In Isaiah 40:4, the masculine plural absolute form occurs in the clause about altered landforms: after valleys are raised and mountains and hills are lowered, the APB renders the resulting terrain as “the roughness” becoming “a valley.”

   Isaiah 40:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Isaiah 40:4, the APB presents the term within the landscape-leveling sequence as “the roughness,”.