CAUSEWAY; CAUSEY

koz'-wa, ko'-zi (more correctly ): This word occurs in 1 Chronicles 26:16,18 for the Hebrew mecillah; Septuagint pastophorion tes anabaseos. In 2 Ch 9:11 the word is translated "terraces" (Septuagint anabaseis). Compare BDB , under the word, where mecilloth, is an error for mic`adhoth (1 Kings 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 Numbers 20:19; Judges 20:31 f,45; 1 Samuel 6:12; 2 Samuel 20:12 f; 2 Kings 18:17 (Isaiah 36:2); Isaiah 7:3; 11:16; 19:23; 33:8; 40:3; 49:11; Jeremiah 31:21.

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

W. N. Stearns

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.