Terrace
Terrace
(, mesillah, 2Ch 9:11; Sept. ; a highway, as elsewhere usually rendered), a staircase, constructed by Solomon for his edifices out of the algum-trees imported from the East Indies. SEE PALACE; SEE TEMPLE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Terrace
teras (, mesillah): Solomon is said, in 2Ch 9:11, to have made of the algum trees brought him from Ophir terraces, or raised walks, for the house of Yahweh. In the parallel 1Ki 10:12, the word used is rendered pillars, margin ‘a railing’; Hebrew ‘a prop.’