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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Stairs

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

10exact KJV occurrences 8Old Testament 2New Testament 6books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 10occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

1 Kings 6:8

The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Acts 21:40

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where stairs appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4609
מַעֲלָה

maʻălâh · mah-al-aw'

5 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

elevation, i.e. the act (literally, a journey to a higher place, figuratively, a thought arising), or (concretely) the condition (literally, a step or grade-mark, figuratively, a superiority of station); specifically a climactic progression (in certain Psalms)

Strong's KJV usage: things that come up, (high) degree, deal, go up, stair, step, story.

Strong's first: 2 Kings 9:13Strong's last: Ezekiel 43:17

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GreekG304
ἀναβαθμός

anabathmós · an-ab-ath-mos'

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

a stairway

Strong's KJV usage: :--stairs.

Strong's first: Acts 21:35Strong's last: Acts 21:40

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HebrewH3883
לוּל

lûwl · lool

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a spiral step

Strong's KJV usage: winding stair. Compare 3924.

Strong's first: 1 Kings 6:8Strong's last: 1 Kings 6:8

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HebrewH4608
מַעֲלֶה

maʻăleh · mah-al-eh'

1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an elevation, i.e. (concretely) acclivity or platform; abstractly (the relation or state) a rise or (figuratively) priority

Strong's KJV usage: ascent, before, chiefest, cliff, that goeth up, going up, hill, mounting up, stairs.

Strong's first: Nehemiah 9:4Strong's last: Nehemiah 9:4

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Acts 21:35
G304

And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.

Acts 21:40
G304

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

stair

STAIR, noun

1. A step; a stone or a frame of boards or planks by which a person rises one step. A stair to make the ascent easy, should not exceed six or seven inches in elevation. When the riser is eight, nine or ten inches in breadth, the ascent by stairs is laborious.

2. Stairs, in the plural, a series of steps by which persons ascend to a higher room in a building. [Stair, in this sense, is not in use.]

Flight of stairs, may signify the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story; or in winding stairs, the phrase may signify the stairs from the floor to a turn, or from one turn to another.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.