koz'-wa, ko'-zi (more correctly): This word occurs in1Ch 26:16,18for the Hebrew mecillah; Septuagint pastophorion tes anabaseos. In2Ch 9:11the 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 inNu 20:19;Jud 20:31f,45;1Sa 6:12;2Sa 20:12f;2Ki 18:17(Isa 36:2);Isa 7:3;11:16;19:23;33:8;40:3;49:11;Jer 31:21.
Figurative: InIsa 59:7the word (mecillah) occurs in a figurative sense, so also inJud 5:20;Pr 16:17.
W. N. Stearns