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They facilitated the movement of people, goods, and ideas across regions, playing a crucial role in the historical and cultural context of the Bible. Roads connected cities, towns, and villages, enabling the spread of the Gospel and the fulfillment of divine missions.<br><br><b>Biblical References</b> <br>The Bible contains numerous references to roads, often highlighting their significance in God's plan. In the Old Testament, roads are mentioned in the context of journeys, trade routes, and military campaigns. For example, the "King's Highway" was a major trade route mentioned in <a href="/numbers/20-17.htm">Numbers 20:17</a>, where the Israelites requested passage through Edom: "Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through any field or vineyard or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King's Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory."<br><br>In the New Testament, roads are frequently associated with the ministry of Jesus and the apostles. The Roman road system, known for its engineering and efficiency, facilitated the rapid spread of Christianity. <a href="/acts/9-2.htm">Acts 9:2</a> describes Saul's journey on the road to Damascus, where he encountered the risen Christ: "and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem."<br><br><b>Symbolism and Metaphor</b> <br>Roads in the Bible often carry symbolic meaning, representing the journey of faith and the path of righteousness. <a href="/proverbs/3-6.htm">Proverbs 3:6</a> advises, "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." This verse underscores the importance of seeking God's guidance in one's life journey.<br><br>The concept of the "narrow road" is a powerful metaphor used by Jesus in <a href="/matthew/7-13.htm">Matthew 7:13-14</a>: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." This passage emphasizes the challenges and rewards of following Christ.<br><br><b>Historical Context</b> <br>In ancient Israel, roads were often simple paths or trails, with major routes connecting key cities and regions. The Roman Empire's extensive road network, built for military and administrative purposes, became instrumental in the early church's missionary activities. Roman roads were constructed with layers of stone and gravel, designed for durability and ease of travel.<br><br><b>Cultural and Religious Significance</b> <br>Roads facilitated pilgrimage to Jerusalem, especially during major feasts such as Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. <a href="/psalms/84-5.htm">Psalm 84:5</a> speaks to the blessedness of those who journey to worship: "Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage."<br><br>In the prophetic literature, roads are sometimes depicted as being prepared for the coming of the Lord. <a href="/isaiah/40-3.htm">Isaiah 40:3-4</a> proclaims, "A voice of one calling: 'Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.'" This imagery is echoed in the New Testament with John the Baptist's ministry, preparing the way for Jesus.<br><br><b>Conclusion</b> <br>While roads in the Bible serve practical purposes, they also carry deep spiritual and symbolic meanings. They remind believers of the journey of faith, the call to righteousness, and the mission to spread the Gospel to all nations.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/1327.htm"><span class="l">1327. diexodos -- to consider, reflect</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Feminine Transliteration: diexodos Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ex'-od-os) Short Definition:<br> a public spot in a city Definition: a meeting-place of <b>roads</b>, a public <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1327.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/3598.htm"><span class="l">3598. hodos -- a way, road</span></a> <br><b>...</b> word Definition a way, road NASB Word Usage highways (2), journey (7), path (1),<br> paths (1), road (24), <b>roads</b> (1), streets (1), way (54), ways (9). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3598.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/6563.htm"><span class="l">6563. pereq -- parting of ways, plunder</span></a><br><b>...</b> crossway, robbery. From paraq; rapine; also a fork (in <b>roads</b>) -- crossway, robbery.<br> see HEBREW paraq. 6562, 6563. pereq. 6564 . Strong's Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6563.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1870.htm"><span class="l">1870. derek -- way, road, distance, journey, manner</span></a><br><b>...</b> impulses (1), journey (37), line (1), manner (4), mission (2), path (4), pathless*<br> (2), pathway (1), pathway* (1), practice (1), road (30), <b>roads</b> (5), roadway <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1870.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_4_travelling_in_palestineroads.htm"><span class="l">Travelling in Palestine --<b>Roads</b>, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter 4 Travelling in Palestine"<b>Roads</b>, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House<br> Officers, Taxation, Publicans. It was the very busiest <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../sketches of jewish social life/chapter 4 travelling in palestineroads.htm</font><p><a href="/library/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/march_the_eleventh_good_and.htm"><span class="l">March the Eleventh Good and Bad <b>Roads</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> MARCH The Eleventh GOOD AND BAD <b>ROADS</b>. PSALM i. There is nothing breaks<br> up more speedily than a badly-made road. Every season is <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../my daily meditation for the circling year/march the eleventh good and.htm</font><p><a href="/library/arnobius/the_seven_books_of_arnobius_against_the_heathen/42_was_it_for_this.htm"><span class="l">Was it for this He Sent Souls, that Some Should Infest the <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Book II. 42 Was it for this He sent souls, that some should infest the<br> highways and <b>roads</b>? Was it for this He sent souls, that <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../arnobius/the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/42 was it for this.htm</font><p><a href="/library/macduff/the_cities_of_refuge_or_the_name_of_jesus/iii_the_gospel_refuge.htm"><span class="l">The Gospel Refuge.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> The cities themselves were generally on a height, so as to be seen at a far<br> distance. The <b>roads</b> leading to them were carefully kept. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../macduff/the cities of refuge or the name of jesus/iii the gospel refuge.htm</font><p><a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/shod_for_the_road.htm"><span class="l">Shod for the Road</span></a> <br><b>...</b> of the foot is carried on into the next words, 'Thy shoes shall be iron and brass,'<br> the tribe being located upon rocky sea-coast, having rough <b>roads</b> to travel <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/shod for the road.htm</font><p><a href="/library/wilmot-buxton/the_life_of_duty_a_years_plain_sermons_v_2/sermon_lv_wary_walking.htm"><span class="l">Wary Walking.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> It used to be said of old that all <b>roads</b> led to Rome, because she was the<br> capital of the world. <b>...</b> But all <b>roads</b> do not lead to Heaven. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the life of duty a years plain sermons v 2/sermon lv wary walking.htm</font><p><a href="/library/gordon/quiet_talks_with_world_winners/returning_our_call.htm"><span class="l">Returning Our Call.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> on. Then diplomacy entered and broadened the <b>roads</b>. <b>...</b> And in turn the<br> missionaries have freely used the broader, better <b>roads</b>. And <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/returning our call.htm</font><p><a href="/library/goforth/how_i_know_god_answers_prayer/viii_our_god_of_the.htm"><span class="l">Our God of the Impossible</span></a> <br><b>...</b> The summer holidays at Peitaiho were drawing to a close. Heavy rains had fallen,<br> making the <b>roads</b> to the station, six miles distant, almost impassable. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../goforth/how i know god answers prayer/viii our god of the.htm</font><p><a href="/library/taylor/a_retrospect/chapter_x_first_evangelistic_efforts.htm"><span class="l">First Evangelistic Efforts</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Walking was out of the question, from the state of the <b>roads</b>, so we availed ourselves<br> of wheel-barrows, the only conveyance to be had in these parts. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../taylor/a retrospect/chapter x first evangelistic efforts.htm</font><p><a href="/library/howard/standards_of_life_and_service/vii_the_pathway_of_the.htm"><span class="l">The Pathway of the Holy</span></a> <br><b>...</b> One would think that Isaiah was speaking of two separate <b>roads</b>, for his prophetic<br> eye sees 'a highway and a way' along which the course of God's people runs. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../howard/standards of life and service/vii the pathway of the.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/r/roads.htm"><span class="l"><b>Roads</b> (34 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b><b>Roads</b> (34 Occurrences). <b>...</b> (WEY). Mark 1:3 The voice of one crying in the waste land,<br> Make ready the way of the Lord, make his <b>roads</b> straight; (BBE). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/roads.htm - 16k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/cross-roads.htm"><span class="l">Cross-<b>roads</b> (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br>Cross-<b>roads</b>. Crossroads, Cross-<b>roads</b>. Crossway . Multi-Version<br> Concordance Cross-<b>roads</b> (2 Occurrences). Matthew 22:9 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/cross-roads.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/side-roads.htm"><span class="l">Side-<b>roads</b> (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br>Side-<b>roads</b>. Side-posts, Side-<b>roads</b>. Side-rooms . Multi-Version<br> Concordance Side-<b>roads</b> (1 Occurrence). Jeremiah 18:15 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/side-roads.htm - 6k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/settle.htm"><span class="l">Settle (63 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 8. (n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of<br> the ground, of <b>roads</b>, and the like; as, clear weather settles the <b>roads</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/settle.htm - 30k</font><p><a href="/topical/w/waste.htm"><span class="l">Waste (668 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Matthew 3:3 For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying<br> in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his <b>roads</b> straight. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/w/waste.htm - 37k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/pisidia.htm"><span class="l">Pisidia (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Friends" in Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 1906.)<br> The plateau on which Antioch stood commands one of the <b>roads</b> leading from the <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/pisidia.htm - 21k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/foot.htm"><span class="l">Foot (193 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> foot (reghel, qarcol (only twice in parallel passages: 2 Samuel 22:37 = Psalm<br> 18:36, where it probably means ankle); pous): The dusty <b>roads</b> of Palestine and <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/foot.htm - 48k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/cart.htm"><span class="l">Cart (12 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> With the Arabian conquests and subsequent ruin of the <b>roads</b> wheeled vehicles<br> disappeared from Syria and Palestine. History is again repeating itself. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/cart.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/concourse.htm"><span class="l">Concourse (4 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 4. (n.) An open space where several <b>roads</b> or paths meet; esp. an open space in a<br> park where several <b>roads</b> meet. 5. (n.) Concurrence; cooperation. Int. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/concourse.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/crossroads.htm"><span class="l">Crossroads (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Jeremiah 6:16 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the<br> ways; make search for the old <b>roads</b>, saying, Where is the good way? <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/crossroads.htm - 7k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/right-religion.html">What is the right religion for me? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Roman-empire.html">What is the significance of the Roman Empire in biblical history? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/essentials-Christian-faith.html">What are the essentials of the Christian faith? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/roads.htm">Roads: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Roads (34 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/3-3.htm">Matthew 3:3</a></span><br />For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his <span class="boldtext">roads</span> straight.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/22-10.htm">Matthew 22:10</a></span><br />"So they went out into the <span class="boldtext">roads</span> and gathered together all they could find, both bad and good, and the banqueting hall was filled with guests.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/1-3.htm">Mark 1:3</a></span><br />The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his <span class="boldtext">roads</span> straight;<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/3-4.htm">Luke 3:4</a></span><br />As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his <span class="boldtext">roads</span> straight.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/3-5.htm">Luke 3:5</a></span><br />Every ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill levelled down, the crooked places shall be turned into straight <span class="boldtext">roads</span>, and the rugged ways into smooth;<br /><span class="source">(WEY NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/14-23.htm">Luke 14:23</a></span><br />"'Go out,' replied the master, 'to the high <span class="boldtext">roads</span> and hedge-rows, and compel the people to come in, so that my house may be filled.<br /><span class="source">(WEY BBE NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/9-24.htm">Acts 9:24</a></span><br />But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the <span class="boldtext">roads</span> out of the town, so that they might put him to death:<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hebrews/12-13.htm">Hebrews 12:13</a></span><br />And make straight <span class="boldtext">roads</span> for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Leviticus 26:22</a></span><br />I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your <span class="boldtext">roads</span> will become desolate.<br /><span class="source">(WEB BBE NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-3.htm">Deuteronomy 19:3</a></span><br />You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/5-6.htm">Judges 5:6</a></span><br />In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side <span class="boldtext">roads</span>.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/20-31.htm">Judges 20:31</a></span><br />The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/20-32.htm">Judges 20:32</a></span><br />The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/20-45.htm">Judges 20:45</a></span><br />They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/14-4.htm">1 Samuel 14:4</a></span><br />Now between the narrow <span class="boldtext">roads</span> over the mountains by which Jonathan was making his way to the Philistines' forces, there was a sharp overhanging rock on one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: one was named Bozez and the other Seneh.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/19-8.htm">Job 19:8</a></span><br />My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my <span class="boldtext">roads</span> dark. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/21-29.htm">Job 21:29</a></span><br />Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/30-13.htm">Job 30:13</a></span><br />They have made waste my <span class="boldtext">roads</span>, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/2-13.htm">Proverbs 2:13</a></span><br />Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark <span class="boldtext">roads</span>;<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/8-2.htm">Proverbs 8:2</a></span><br />At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the <span class="boldtext">roads</span>, she takes her place;<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/8-3.htm">Proverbs 8:3</a></span><br />Where the <span class="boldtext">roads</span> go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/33-8.htm">Isaiah 33:8</a></span><br />The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/42-16.htm">Isaiah 42:16</a></span><br />And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by <span class="boldtext">roads</span> strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/49-9.htm">Isaiah 49:9</a></span><br />Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/49-11.htm">Isaiah 49:11</a></span><br />And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways will be lifted up.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/59-8.htm">Isaiah 59:8</a></span><br />They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2</a></span><br />Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-16.htm">Jeremiah 6:16</a></span><br />This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old <span class="boldtext">roads</span>, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.<br /><span class="source">(BBE RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-25.htm">Jeremiah 6:25</a></span><br />Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-15.htm">Jeremiah 18:15</a></span><br />For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old <span class="boldtext">roads</span>, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;<br /><span class="source">(BBE RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/lamentations/1-4.htm">Lamentations 1:4</a></span><br />The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/lamentations/3-9.htm">Lamentations 3:9</a></span><br />He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my <span class="boldtext">roads</span> twisted.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-19.htm">Ezekiel 21:19</a></span><br />And you, son of man, have two ways marked out, so that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; let the two of them come out of one land: and let there be a pillar at the top of the road:<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-21.htm">Ezekiel 21:21</a></span><br />For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two <span class="boldtext">roads</span>, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NIV)</span><a 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