anabathmos

Strong’sG304

a step, a flight of steps

stem anabathm-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἀνα-βαθμός, -οῦ, ὁ

(< ἀναβαίνω), [in LXX for מַעֲלָה: III Ki 10:19, 20, IV Ki 9:13 20:9 ff, II Ch 9:18, 19, Is 38:8, Ez 40:6, 49; ᾠδὴ τῶν ἀ., tit. 119(120)-133(134)*;]

1. a going up, an ascent (Pss, tit. 119(120)-133(134) ?).

2. a step (LXX); pl., a flight of stairs: Ac 21:35, 40. (On the formation -θμός, v. MM, VGT, s.v.)†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G304 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidan-ab-ath-mos'

a stairway

Fromfrom G305 (compare G898);

King Jamesstairs.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀναβαθ-μός, ὁ,
flight of steps, stair, Refs 5th c.BC+by degrees, Refs 1st c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

steps2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	anabathmos	anabathmois
object accusative	anabathmon	anabathmoin1×ἀναβαθμούς
direct address vocative	anabathmor	anabathmoir
of, belonging to genitive	anabathmou	anabathmoiu1×ἀναβαθμῶν
to, for dative	anabathmo	anabathmoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

anabathmstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

anabathmo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

anabathmoin“steps”objectaccusative plural1×

Acts 21:35hote de geneta epi toin anabathmoin, sumbainata bastazorō auton hupo toiu stratiōtoiu …When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by …

anabathmoiu“steps”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Acts 21:40… autou tos Paulos stēarēntos epi toiu anabathmoiu kataseiata ta cheira to lao, pollau …… received permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. A …