Causeway, Causey
kozwa, kozi (more correctly ): This word occurs in 1Ch 26:16, 1Ch 26:18 for the Hebrew , mesillah; Septuagint , pastophoron tes anabaseos. In 2Ch 9:11 the word is translated terraces (Septuagint , anabaseis). Compare BDB, under the word, where , mesilloth, is an error for , misadhoth (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 (mesillah) occurs in a figurative sense, so also in Jdg 5:20; Pro 16:17.