'Feet' in the Bible

Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree;

And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.”

So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

Then the man brought the men into Joseph’s house and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their donkeys fodder.

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah,Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,Until Shiloh comes,And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Lord’s Passover.

and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

You shall cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.

You shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the lobes of his sons’ right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar.

Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it;

So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations.”

He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet; even two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

He cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four feet.

From it Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.

Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth.

Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable.

If the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of him who has the infection from his head even to his feet, as far as the priest can see,

Again, the sons of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if I and my livestock do drink any of your water, then I will pay its price. Let me only pass through on my feet, nothing else.”

It shall come about when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, and the waters which are flowing down from above will stand in one heap.”

and when those who carried the ark came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest),

and command them, saying, ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet are standing firm, and carry them over with you and lay them down in the lodging place where you will lodge tonight.’”

Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day.

It came about when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks as before.

The captain of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes on themselves; and all the bread of their provision was dry and had become crumbled.

When they brought these kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came near and put their feet on their necks.

“Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;Between her feet he bowed, he fell;Where he bowed, there he fell dead.

So he took him into his house and gave the donkeys fodder, and they washed their feet and ate and drank.

It shall be when he lies down, that you shall notice the place where he lies, and you shall go and uncover his feet and lie down; then he will tell you what you shall do.”

When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.

It happened in the middle of the night that the man was startled and bent forward; and behold, a woman was lying at his feet.

So she lay at his feet until morning and rose before one could recognize another; and he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

“He keeps the feet of His godly ones,But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness;For not by might shall a man prevail.

Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer behind him; and they fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer put some to death after him.

She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the blame. And please let your maidservant speak to you, and listen to the words of your maidservant.

She arose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”

“Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in fetters;As one falls before the wicked, you have fallen.”And all the people wept again over him.

Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the report of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

The king said, “Is there not yet anyone of the house of Saul to whom I may show the kindness of God?” And Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan who is crippled in both feet.”

So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate at the king’s table regularly. Now he was lame in both feet.

Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and a present from the king was sent out after him.

Then Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

“He bowed the heavens also, and came downWith thick darkness under His feet.

“He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,And sets me on my high places.

“You enlarge my steps under me,And my feet have not slipped.

“And I have devoured them and shattered them, so that they did not rise;And they fell under my feet.

“Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also shed the blood of war in peace. And he put the blood of war on his belt about his waist, and on his sandals on his feet.

“You know that David my father was unable to build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side.

When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.

Now you, arise, go to your house. When your feet enter the city the child will die.

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out.

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a marauding band; and they cast the man into the grave of Elisha. And when the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet.

“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,And with the sole of my feet I dried upAll the rivers of Egypt.”

And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.”

Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.

The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet facing the main room.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

“Indeed, forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not in want;Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell.

Then Esther spoke again to the king, fell at his feet, wept and implored him to avert the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite and his plot which he had devised against the Jews.

“He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt,As prepared for those whose feet slip.

“You put my feet in the stocksAnd watch all my paths;You set a limit for the soles of my feet,

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

“I was eyes to the blindAnd feet to the lame.

“On the right hand their brood arises;They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

‘He puts my feet in the stocks;He watches all my paths.’

You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;You have put all things under his feet,

My steps have held fast to Your paths.My feet have not slipped.

He bowed the heavens also, and came downWith thick darkness under His feet.

He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,And sets me upon my high places.

You enlarge my steps under me,And my feet have not slipped.

I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise;They fell under my feet.

For dogs have surrounded me;A band of evildoers has encompassed me;They pierced my hands and my feet.

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,For He will pluck my feet out of the net.

And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy;You have set my feet in a large place.

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

He subdues peoples under usAnd nations under our feet.

For You have delivered my soul from death,Indeed my feet from stumbling,So that I may walk before GodIn the light of the living.

The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Who keeps us in lifeAnd does not allow our feet to slip.

But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling,My steps had almost slipped.

They afflicted his feet with fetters,He himself was laid in irons;

A Psalm of David.The Lord says to my Lord:“Sit at My right handUntil I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

They have hands, but they cannot feel;They have feet, but they cannot walk;They cannot make a sound with their throat.

For You have rescued my soul from death,My eyes from tears,My feet from stumbling.

I considered my waysAnd turned my feet to Your testimonies.

I have restrained my feet from every evil way,That I may keep Your word.

Nun.Your word is a lamp to my feetAnd a light to my path.

Our feet are standingWithin your gates, O Jerusalem,

Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;Preserve me from violent menWho have purposed to trip up my feet.

My son, do not walk in the way with them.Keep your feet from their path,