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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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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מַעֲלָה
maʻălâh · mah-al-aw'
5 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H4609 profile →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
Open full G304 profile →לוּל
lûwl · lool
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a spiral step
Strong's KJV usage: winding stair. Compare 3924.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 6:8Strong's last: 1 Kings 6:8
Open full H3883 profile →מַדְרֵגָה
madrêgâh · mad-ray-gaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a step; by implication, a steep or inaccessible place
Strong's KJV usage: stair, steep place.
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Strong's first: Song of Solomon 2:14Strong's last: Song of Solomon 2:14
Open full H4095 profile →מַעֲלֶה
maʻăleh · mah-al-eh'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
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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H4609
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
H4608
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
H4609
And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
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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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