noun · neuter
ichnem
Strong’sG2487
a track, footstep
stem ichn-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
ἴχνος, -εος (-ους), τό,
[in LXX for כַּף, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2487 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidikh'-nos
compare G2240); a track (figuratively)
Fromfrom ἰκνέομαι (to arrive;
King Jamesstep.
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
track, footstep, Refs 8th c.BC+; of the spoor of game, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, track, trace, κατ᾽ ἴχνος πλατᾶν ἄφαντον Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐς ταὐτὸν ἐλθὼν.. λόγων ἴ. Refs 5th c.BC+: with negative, not a trace, μαζῶν οὐδὲ ἴχνη Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἴ. ποδὸς θεῖναι, Latin vestigia ponere, Refs 5th c.BC+; λεπτὸν ἴ. ἀρβύλης τίθετε step softly, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν ἴχνεσί τινος πόδα νέμειν (metaphorically) NT+5th c.BC+; κατ᾽ ἴχνος ᾄσσειν, κατ᾽ ἴχνη διώκειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἴ. μετιέναι, μετελθεῖν, Refs; ἴχνους προσάπτεσθαι hit upon a trail, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 poetry, foot, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 hard sole of the foot, LXX+2nd c.AD+; sole of a shoe, Refs 5th c.BC+; sandal, Refs 3rd c.AD+
4 τὰ ἴ. τῶν χειρῶν the palms of the hands, LXX
5 ἴ. ἀνθρώπινον, as a measure of length, Refs 2nd c.AD+
6 track, route in the desert, Refs 2nd c.AD+
7 plural, representations of footprints as votive offerings indicating the presence of a God, ἀνέθηκαν.. κατὰ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐνέργιαν ἴχνη αὐτοῦ χρύσεα τέσσερα Refs
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.
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 or object direct | ichnem | ichneim |
| of, belonging to genitive | ichneu | ichneiu |
| to, for dative | ichne | ichnei3×ἴχνεσιν |
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
ichne 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
ichnei“steps”to, fordative plural3×
Romans 4:12… monem alla kai toi stoicharōntoi tei ichnei tau en akrobustia pistiau tou patrou …… but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father …
2 Corinthians 12:18“steps”… aute pneume peripatana? ouk tei autei ichnei?… in the same Spirit and follow in the same footsteps?
1 Peter 2:21“steps”… vi hupolimpanarōntos hupogrammon hina epakolouthaveia tei ichnei autou;… for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps: