HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5551
סֻלָּם
sul.lam — ladder
ladder
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Ladder
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G21388
διαβάθρα
— ladder
ladder
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4846
מְרֹרָה
me.ro.rah — gall
1) bitter thing, gall, poison 1a) gall, gall-bladder (seat of gall) 1b) poison, venom 1c) bitter thing 1d) bitterness
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3883
לוּל
lul — stairs
staircase, winding stair, shaft or enclosed space with steps or ladder
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8024
κλιμακτήρ
klimaktēr — a step
the round of a ladder , (Euripides) from κλῖμαξ (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8025
κλῖμαξ
klimax — a stairway
1. a ladder or staircase (because of its leaning aslant) , (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—; a scaling-ladder , (Thucydides); κλίμακος προσαμβάσεις (Aeschulus Tragicus):—; a ship's ladder , (Euripides) 2. a frame with cross-bars , on which persons to be tortured were tied, (Aristophanes Comicus) 3. in (Sophocles Tragicus), κλίμακες ἀμφίπλεκτοι intertwining ladders , to express the entanglement of the limbs of wrestlers. 4. a climax , i. e. a gradual ascent from weaker expressions to stronger, Lat. gradatio, as Cicero's abiit, evasit, erupit. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8909
προσανάβασις
prosanabasis — an ascent leading to
a going up, ascent , κλίμακος προσαμβάσεις ascent by means of ladders, i. e. scaling ladders, (Aeschulus Tragicus); πρ. (Euripides); τειχέων πρ. a place where they may be approached , (Euripides); δωμάτων πρ. i. e. the steps leading to the house, (Euripides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8924
πρόσθεσις
prosthesis — an addition
1. a putting to, application of ladders to a wall, (Thucydides); of the cupping-glass, (Aristotle Philosopher) 2. an adding, addition , (Plato Philosophus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Historical dictionary entry
Occurs only once, in the account of Jacob’s vision (Gen. 28:12).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.