125 occurrences in 13 translations

'Steps' in the Bible

And while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And he went with unequal steps because of his damaged leg.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakAt Daybreak

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Verse ConceptsIndecencyNakednessStairwaysStepsPrivate Parts

“If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,

Verse ConceptsGraspingMale GenitalsFighting One AnotherStrugglesmanhood

“Indeed, He loves the people;All Your holy ones are in Your hand,And they followed in Your steps;Everyone receives of Your words.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfBowingGod's Love For IsraelDirection

Through the window she hath looked out -- Yea, she crieth out -- the mother of Sisera, Through the lattice: Wherefore is his chariot delaying to come? Wherefore tarried have the steps of his chariot?

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldLooking Through WindowsPeople Who Delayed

He guards the steps of His faithful ones,but the wicked perish in darkness,for a man does not prevail by his own strength.

Verse ConceptsAbilityFeetdefence, divineGod, The ProviderGuardsSaintsSilenceLimitations Of StrengthThe Outer DarknessFeet SecureOuter Darknesstoughness

Go now, and take more steps, and see where he is living: for they say that he is expert in deceit.

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

David’s men retraced their steps. When they returned to him, they reported all these words.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?

Verse ConceptsPeople Who DelayedPeople Of Judah

The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysRight SidesSteps

And he made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and there was a porch in front of them; and there were pillars, and steps in front of them.

Verse ConceptsHousesHallsDimensions Of Buildings

And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps.

Verse ConceptsLionsCherubim Depicted

The king made the almug wood into steps for the Lord’s temple and the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood come, and the like has not been seen again even to this very day.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreSingingMusical Instruments, Made OfLyres

The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsStepsTwo Animals

And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveLionsSix ThingsUnique ThingsTwelve Animals

Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. They blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

Verse ConceptsCloaksStairwaysTrumpetTrumpets For CelebrationMaking Kings

I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

Verse ConceptsdrynessPeople Drying Things UpFeet In ActionFailing Rivers

Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the Lord that He will do what He has promised: Should the shadow go ahead 10 steps or go back 10 steps?”

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsTen ThingsGoing ForwardBackwards

Then Hezekiah answered, “It’s easy for the shadow to lengthen 10 steps. No, let the shadow go back 10 steps.”

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsGoing ForwardBackwardsEasy For God

So Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and He brought the shadow back the 10 steps it had descended on Ahaz’s stairway.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerStairwaysSun DialsTen ThingsBackwardsStepsEclipse

All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

Verse ConceptsArtSculptureCherubim, As Decorations

The king used the algum wood to have steps made for the LORD's Temple and for the royal palace, as well as lyres and harps for the choir, and nothing like that wood had been seen before in the territory of Judah.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreSinging

And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

Verse ConceptsFootstoolsTwo Animals

And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Animals

Let our leaders take steps on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter."

Verse ConceptsJudgesTownGod Will No More Be Angry

And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureStairwaysPoolsNamed GatesStepsGardens Attached To Palaces

Then the Levites -- Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani -- stood on the steps and called out loudly to the LORD their God.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysShouting To The Lord

They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodPromises, HumanServants Of The LordThe Curse Of The LawLater Covenants With GodPeople Bound By OathsThe Law Given Through Moses

At the Fountain Gate they climbed the steps of the city of David on the ascent of the wall and went above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysNamed GatesSteps

You've locked my feet in stocks; you watch all my steps; You've limited where I can walk.

Verse ConceptsPaths Of BelieversGod Seeing All PeoplePathsfootprints

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSteps Of The Saints

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, Physical

“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,And he steps on the webbing.

Verse ConceptsNets

They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterPurgatory

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

Verse ConceptsProvision From Rocks

If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,

Verse ConceptsIf You Turn From God

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

Verse Conceptsaccounting

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysPaths Of RighteousnessTeaching WisdomDutyPaths

These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsMultitudesJoy In WorshipShouting For JoyHolidayPraise, Manner And Methods OfThanksgivingPrayer, Offered WithGoing TogetherProcessionsPeople Going BeforePeople RememberingThanking GodFestivals Observed

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Verse ConceptsFeetHeart, And Holy SpiritDetermination

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Verse ConceptsAlianceseagernessAmbushLooking At People For EvilPeople WaitingEnemy Attacksfootprints

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Verse ConceptsBowingNetsPitsDigging PitsMan TrappingPsalm InterjectionsPit Used As Traps

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

Verse ConceptsFeeling Lost

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsRuinsDestruction Of Jerusalemfootsteps

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Verse Conceptsfootstepsfootprints

Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord's Anointedfootstepsfootprints

You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysGod's OmnipresencePaths Of BelieversLying Down To Rest

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Verse ConceptsWalkingSteps Of The SaintsNot Stumbling

You aren't thinking about where her life is headed; her steps wander, but you do not realize it.

Verse ConceptsThoughtFicklenessLife By WisdomPaths Of Lifeuncertainty

So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].

Verse ConceptsBanditsAvoiding Poverty

The inexperienced one believes anything,but the sensible one watches his steps.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfShrewdnessPrudenceThinkingScience

The first to put forth his case seems right, until someone else steps forward and cross-examines him.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstDo Not Be RashPerspectiveexams

A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

Verse ConceptsFlatteryNetsMan Trapping

In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

Verse ConceptsSin, Consequences OfFruits Of SinMusic To CelebrateGod Trapping

There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:

Verse ConceptsThree Or Fourdignity

Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil.

Verse ConceptsFormalityGod's DwellingThe Work Of FoolsCare Of FeetSacrificeFoolsGoing To ChurchListening To GodfootstepsbehaviorevangelisingGuarding Yourself

(The Bridegroom)“O my dove, [here] in the clefts in the rock,In the sheltered and secret place of the steep pathway,Let me see your face,Let me hear your voice;For your voice is sweet,And your face is lovely.”

Verse ConceptsdovesAttractionNames And Titles For The ChurchhidingBeautiful Women

The Lord also says:Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,walking with heads held highand seductive eyes,going along with prancing steps,jingling their ankle bracelets,

Verse ConceptsNecksDebaucheryOrnamentsSuperiorityCosmeticsHaughtinessWantonnessDecadenceEvil Eyesmakeupbrandingzion

The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDrunkenness, Figurative OfBewildermentStaggeringPuzzlementuncertaintydrunkards

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

Verse ConceptsTrampling Placesfootsteps

Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

Verse ConceptsAmazingdrinkingStaggeringStrong DrinkBlindingGod Making DrunkOther Blindinguncertaintybeerdrunkards

I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

Verse ConceptsdrynessWaterPeople Drying Things Upbridges

I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on Ahaz’s stairway go back by 10 steps.” So the sun’s shadow went back the 10 steps it had descended.

Verse ConceptsAstronomyLight, NaturalShadowsStairwaysThe SunSun DialsTen ThingsStepsMoving OnRecoveryEclipseSolar Eclipse

I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

Verse ConceptsClayeastCraftsmenPotterVictory, As An Act Of GodPotteryClay, UsesOut Of The North

At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.

Verse ConceptsRestoration After BackslidingHardness Of HeartHonorJerusalem, Significance OfKingdom Of God, Coming OfMinistry, Nature OfObstinacy Against GodGathering Other NationsAvoiding ObstinacyJerusalem In Millennial Kingdom

Indeed, I hear many people whispering, "Terror on every side. Denounce him, let's denounce him!" All my close friends watch my steps and say, "Perhaps he will be deceived, and we can prevail against him and take vengeance on him."

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessPeace, Human Destruction OfPersecution, Forms OfSympathyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapDefamationDeceiving OneselfFear Will ComeFriends FailingMan AvengingUnder One's BreathRevengeterrorism

For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsYearsThe Insecurity Of The WickedWalking In DarknessThe Day Of JudgementSlipperynessGod SuingGod Will Bring HarmPaths

“Place for yourself road signs [toward Canaan],Make for yourself guideposts;Turn your thought and attention to the highway,To the way by which you went [into exile].Retrace your steps, O virgin of Israel,Return to these your cities.

Verse ConceptsHighwayReturning to their landHighwaysroadblocksvirginity

And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.

Verse ConceptsStumblingAbaseAbasement Of The ProudDownfallBurning CitiesThe Proud Will Be Abaseduncertaintyarrogance

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

Verse ConceptsStreetsPeople EndedPeople Following People

And fall upon me doth the Spirit of Jehovah, and He saith unto me, 'Say: Thus said Jehovah: Rightly ye have said, O house of Israel, And the steps of your spirit I have known.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGod's Knowledge Of PeopleExposure Of SinThe Spirit Of The LordMan's ThoughtsThoughts Of The WickedGod Knowing the Human Heart

Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10 feet deep—the first threshold was 10 feet deep.

Verse ConceptsdepthStairwaysDimensions Of DoorwaysFacing EastStepsRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsWindows For The TempleEast GatesStepsSame Sizes

And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSteps

And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleStepsPlans For A New Temple

And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSteps

And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSteps

Bible Theasaurus

Footprint (1 instance)
Footstep (3 instances)
Ladder (1 instance)
Measure (301 instances)
Stride (3 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשּׁר אשׁר 
'ashur 
Usage: 9

הליך 
Haliyk 
Usage: 1

מעלה 
Ma`alah 
degree , steps , stairs , dial , by , come , stories , go up
Usage: 46

מצעד 
Mits`ad 
Usage: 3

עקּבה עקב 
`aqeb 
heel , footsteps , horsehoofs , at the last , steps , liers in wait
Usage: 14

פּעמה פּעם 
Pa`am 
Usage: 118

פּשׂע 
Pesa` 
Usage: 1

צעד 
Tsa`ad 
step , pace , goings , go
Usage: 14

ἐμβαίνω 
Embaino 
enter , come , get , go , take 9 , go up , step in
Usage: 18

ἴχνος 
Ichnos 
Usage: 3

καταβαίνω 
Katabaino 
Usage: 63

Στεφανᾶς 
Stephanas 
Usage: 3

Στέφανος 
Stephanos 
Usage: 7

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