ἴχνος
footstep
also: a footprint, track fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2487 appears in the Book of 2 Corinthians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Corinthians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ιχνος (íchnos) is a Greek noun most often rendered “footstep.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Romans dominates its distribution — 1 of 3 verses. Debuting at Romans 4:12, it then recurs through the corpus. The lexical range runs to 2 senses — “footstep” plus “a footprint” and “track”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2487 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 1 verse 33%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 33%
- 1 Peter 1 verse 33%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Steps 3×
- American Standard Version: Steps 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Footsteps 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Footsteps 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2487 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2487 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2487 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2487 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a footprint, track, footstep
- in the NT, metaph. of imitating the example of any one
Word origin
Derived from ηκω (hḗkō) (G2240) — to arrive.
From ἰκνέομαι ikneomai (to arrive ; compare G2240 ); a track (figuratively): - step.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2487, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ιχνος appears 20 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 11 books.
- 20
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 42:9 ἴχνος
- Deuteronomy 11:24 ἴχνος
- Joshua 1:3 ἴχνος
- 1 Samuel 5:4 ἴχνος
- 2 Samuel 14:25 ἴχνος
- 1 Kings 5:17 ἴχνος
- 2 Kings 9:35 ἴχνος
- Job 9:26 ἴχνος
- Psalms 17:37 ἴχνος
- Ezekiel 32:13 ἴχνος
- Daniel 10:10 ἴχνος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2487) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 42:9 ἴχνος Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."
- Genesis 42:12 ἴχνος He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
- Deuteronomy 11:24 ἴχνος Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 ἴχνος Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Deuteronomy 28:65 ἴχνος Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
- Joshua 1:3 ἴχνος Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread on, to you have I given it, as I spoke to Moses.
- 1 Samuel 5:4 ἴχνος When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.
- 2 Samuel 14:25 ἴχνος Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
- 1 Kings 5:17 ἴχνος The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
- 1 Kings 18:44 ἴχνος It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you.
- 2 Kings 9:35 ἴχνος They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
- 2 Kings 19:24 ἴχνος I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
- Job 9:26 ἴχνος They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.
- Job 11:7 ἴχνος "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- Job 38:16 ἴχνος "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
- Psalms 17:37 ἴχνος
- Psalms 76:20 ἴχνος
- Ezekiel 32:13 ἴχνος I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
- Ezekiel 43:7 ἴχνος He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
- Daniel 10:10 ἴχνος Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2487) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
