ἀναβαθμός
stairs
‘stairs’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G304 appears in the Genitive case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts 1 verse
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.
The Greek noun αναβαθμος centers on the idea of “stairs.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Acts dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Acts 21:35. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. 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 G304 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
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: Stairs 2×
- American Standard Version: Stairs 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Steps 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Steps 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G304 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G304 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G304 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G304 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- an ascent
- a means of going up, a flight of stairs, stairs
Word origin
Derived from αναβαινω (anabaínō) (G305) — to ascend.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G304 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀναβαθμούς anabathmoús | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 21:35 | 1 |
| ἀναβαθμῶν anabathmō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Acts 21:40 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αναβαθμος appears 27 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 6 books.
- 27
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Kings 10:19 ἀναβαθμός
- 2 Kings 9:13 ἀναβαθμός
- 2 Chronicles 9:18 ἀναβαθμός
- Psalms 119:1 ἀναβαθμός
- Isaiah 38:8 ἀναβαθμός
- Ezekiel 40:6 ἀναβαθμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G304) 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.
- 1 Kings 10:19 ἀναβαθμός There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
- 1 Kings 10:20 ἀναβαθμός Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
- 2 Kings 9:13 ἀναβαθμός Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.
- 2 Kings 20:11 ἀναβαθμός Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
- 2 Chronicles 9:18 ἀναβαθμός nd there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
- 2 Chronicles 9:19 ἀναβαθμός Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
- Psalms 119:1 ἀναβαθμός Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law.
- Psalms 120:1 ἀναβαθμός In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
- Psalms 121:1 ἀναβαθμός I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
- Psalms 122:1 ἀναβαθμός I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"
- Psalms 123:1 ἀναβαθμός To you I do lift up my eyes, You who sit in the heavens.
- Psalms 124:1 ἀναβαθμός If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, Let Israel now say,
- Psalms 125:1 ἀναβαθμός Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, Which can't be moved, but remains forever.
- Psalms 126:1 ἀναβαθμός When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, We were like those who dream.
- Psalms 127:1 ἀναβαθμός Unless Yahweh builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.
- Psalms 128:1 ἀναβαθμός Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, Who walks in his ways.
- Psalms 129:1 ἀναβαθμός Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
- Psalms 130:1 ἀναβαθμός Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
- Psalms 131:1 ἀναβαθμός Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Nor do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me.
- Psalms 132:1 ἀναβαθμός Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
- Psalms 133:1 ἀναβαθμός See how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to live together in unity!
- Isaiah 38:8 ἀναβαθμός behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.
- Ezekiel 40:6 ἀναβαθμός Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the steps of it: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.
- Ezekiel 40:49 ἀναβαθμός The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G304) 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.
