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G304 ἀναβαθμός (anabathmós)
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Quick Definition

ἀναβαθμός, οῦ, ὁ n.m. a step, a flight of steps

Strong's Definition

from 305 (compare 898); a stairway

KJV Usage: stairs

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, m. | -οῦ | βαίνω (go, walk)

7.52 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings

step, flight of steps, stairs in the singular, a step in a flight of steps, and in the plural, a series of steps

ACT 21:35 · ACT 21:40

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀνα-βαθμός, -ov, ὁ, (βαθμός, and this fr. Baive) ; ἜΣ an ascent. 2. a means of going up, a flight of steps, a stair: Acts xxi. 35,40. Exx. fr. Grk. writ. in Lob. ad Phryn. p. 324 sq.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀναβαθμός anabathmos 2x

the act of ascending; means of ascent, steps, stairs, Acts 21:35, 40*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀνα-βαθμός, -οῦ, ὁ

(< ἀναβαίνω), [in LXX for מַעֲלָה: III Ki 10:19, 20, IV Ki 9:13 20:9 ff, II Ch 9:18, 19, Is 38:8, Ez 40:6, 49; ᾠδὴ τῶν ἀ., tit. 119(120)-133(134)*;]

a going up, an ascent (Pss, tit. 119(120)-133(134) ?).

a step (LXX); pl., a flight of stairs: Ac 21:35, 40. (On the formation -θμός, v. MM, VGT, s.v.)†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀναβαθμός. Syll 587398 (iv/B.c.) ἀναβαΐζμ[ο]ύς (ἡ. ἐ. -σμούς), apparently parts of ἃ τροχιλεία, on which see Dittenberger’s note. For examples of a. in late Greek, cf. Aelian vi. 61, xi. 31; Dion Cass. Ixv. 21, Ixviii. 5 (Lobeck Pkryx., p. 324). Rutherford (WP, p. 372) adds the note of Moeris, βασμὸς ᾿Αττικῶς, βαθμὸς “Ἑλληνικῶς, in confirmation of Phrynichus, who tells us that the @ is Ionic: for the relation of the -σμός and -θμός suffixes see Brugmann-Thumb! p. 218 f.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀναβαθμός (anabathmos) — stairs. ἀναβαθ-μός, ὁ, flight of steps, stair, [Refs 5th c.BC+]by degrees, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

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