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Strong's G2487 ἴχνος (ichnos)

Ichnos means “step” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2487 — chaliphah (“change”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2487
Language Greek
Linked Usages 34
Books 18

Strong's G2487 Quick Answer

Strong's G2487 ἴχνος (ichnos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ichnos (ikh'-nos) n. 1. (figuratively) a track [from ikneomai "to arrive"] It has 34 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include steps. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
ichnos (ikh'-nos) n. 1. (figuratively) a track [from ikneomai "to arrive"]
Usage
34 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
steps

Meaning and Definition

ichnos (ikh'-nos) n. 1. (figuratively) a track [from ikneomai "to arrive"] KJV: step Compare: G2240

Original Word
ἴχνος
Transliteration
ichnos
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2487. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

track

Usage: ἴχνος, -εος (-ους), τό [in LXX for כַּף, etc. ;] a track, footstep: metaphorically (as frequently in cl.), στοιχεῖν τοῖς ἴ., Rom.4:12; περιπατεῖν τοῖς ἴ., 2Co.12:18; ἐπακολουθεῖν τοῖς ἴ., 1Pe.2:21 (cf. MM, Exp., xv).† (AS)

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How Strong's G2487 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ichnos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

steps Romans 4:12

How Strong's G2487 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 19 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2487 (ἴχνος) appears 29 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2487 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2487 in the New Testament

3 indexed usages in New Testament.

Romans 4:12 KJV

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

2 Corinthians 12:18 KJV

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

1 Peter 2:21 KJV

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Strong's G2487 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 42:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And Joseph remembered his dream, which he saw; and he said to them, Ye are spies; to observe the marks of the land are ye come.

Genesis 42:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And he said to them, Nay, but ye are come to observe the marks of the land.

Deuteronomy 11:24 Septuagint / Brenton

Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Antilebanon, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.

Strong's G2487 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

12 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 6:4 Septuagint / Brenton

For with them we will tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith King Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And our name shall be forgotten in time, And no man shall have our works in remembrance, And our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, And shall be dispersed as a mist, That is driven away with the beams of the sun, And overcome with the heat thereof.

Wisdom of Solomon 5:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, Which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, Neither the pathway of the keel in the waves:

Usage Excerpts

First 34 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2487.

Genesis 42:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph remembered his dream, which he saw; and he said to them, Ye are spies; to observe the marks of the land are ye come.
Genesis 42:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to them, Nay, but ye are come to observe the marks of the land.
Deuteronomy 11:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Antilebanon, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.
Deuteronomy 28:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord smite thee with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that thou shalt not be able to be healed from the sole of thy foot to the crown of thy head.
Deuteronomy 28:65 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover among those nations he will not give thee quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of thy foot have rest; and the Lord shall give thee there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul.
Joshua 1:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every spot on which ye shall tread I will give it you, as I said to Moses.
1 Kingdoms 5:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when they rose early in the morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off each before the threshold, and both the wrists of his hands had fallen on the floor of the porch; only the stump of Dagon was left.
2 Kingdoms 14:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was not a man in Israel so very comely as Absalom: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
3 Kingdoms 5:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
3 Kingdoms 18:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the servant went again seven times: and it came to pass at the seventh time, that, behold, a little cloud like the sole of a man’s foot brought water; and he said, Go up, and say to Ahab, Make ready thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain overtake thee.
4 Kingdoms 9:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they went to bury her; but they found nothing of her but the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
4 Kingdoms 19:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have refreshed myself, and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.
Job 9:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?
Job 11:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wilt thou find out the traces of the Lord? Or hast thou come to the end of that which the Almighty has made?
Job 38:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, And walked in the tracks of the deep?
Psalms 17:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast made room for my goings under me, And my footsteps did not fail.
Psalms 76:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy way is in the sea, And thy paths in many waters, And thy footsteps cannot be known.
Ezekiel 32:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will destroy all her cattle from beside the great water; and the foot of man shall not trouble it anymore, and the step of cattle shall no more trample it.
Ezekiel 43:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;
Romans 4:12 New Testament, KJV
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
2 Corinthians 12:18 New Testament, KJV
I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
1 Peter 2:21 New Testament, KJV
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
Judith 6:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For with them we will tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith King Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And our name shall be forgotten in time, And no man shall have our works in remembrance, And our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, And shall be dispersed as a mist, That is driven away with the beams of the sun, And overcome with the heat thereof.
Wisdom of Solomon 5:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, Which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, Neither the pathway of the keel in the waves:
Wisdom of Sirach 13:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity; And the finding out of parables is a wearisome labor of the mind.
Wisdom of Sirach 21:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He that hateth reproof is in the way of sinners: But he that feareth the Lord will repent from his heart.
Wisdom of Sirach 37:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The countenance is a sign of changing of the heart.
Wisdom of Sirach 42:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Declaring the things that are past, and for to come, And revealing the steps of hidden things.
Wisdom of Sirach 50:29 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For if he do them, he shall be strong to all things: For the light of the Lord is his path.
Daniel 1:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king spoke with them; and there were not found out of them all any like Daniel, and Hananiah, and Mishael, and Azariah: and they stood before the king.
Daniel 1:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And in every matter of wisdom and knowledge wherein the king questioned them, he found them ten times wiser than all the enchanters and sorcerers that were in all his kingdom.
Book 152 1:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 152 1:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2487, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2487 FAQ

What does ichnos (ἴχνος) mean?

Ichnos (Strong's G2487) is a Greek word most simply glossed "step". ichnos (ikh'-nos) n. 1. (figuratively) a track [from ikneomai "to arrive"]

How many times is ichnos (ἴχνος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 34 linked usages for Strong's G2487 across 18 books.

Where can I study ichnos (ἴχνος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2487 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate ichnos (ἴχνος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as steps. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2487 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 12 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2487, with linked reader references where each row is available.