Meaning
Causeway; Causey koz'-wa, ko'-zi (more correctly): This word occurs in 1Ch 26:16, 1Ch 26:18 for the Hebrew mecillah; Septuagint pastophorion tes anabaseos. In 2Ch 9:11 the word is translated "terraces" (Septuagint anabaseis). Compare BDB, under the word, where mecilloth, is an error for mic`adhoth (1Ki 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, Jdg 20:31 f,45; 1Sa 6:12, 2Sa 20:12 f; 2Ki 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 Jdg 5:20, Pro 16:17.
W. N. Stearns
