Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
foot
Usage: βάσις, ־εως, ἡ (βαίνω), [in LXX chiefly for אֶדֶן ;] __1. a step (Æsch., al.). __2. Hence, a foot (Plat.; Wis.13:18): Act.3:7. † (AS)
Basis means “foot” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H939 — buzah (“despised”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G939 βάσις (basis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. basis (bas'-ece) n. 1. a pace ("base") 2. (by implication) the foot It has 61 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include sockets, altar, its, blood, and pillars. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
basis (bas'-ece) n. 1. a pace ("base") 2. (by implication) the foot [from baino "to walk"] KJV: foot See also: G922
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foot
Usage: βάσις, ־εως, ἡ (βαίνω), [in LXX chiefly for אֶדֶן ;] __1. a step (Æsch., al.). __2. Hence, a foot (Plat.; Wis.13:18): Act.3:7. † (AS)
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
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.
Strong's G939 (βάσις) appears 70 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
57 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And thou shalt make to the twenty posts forty silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.
and their forty silver sockets: two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.
And there shall be eight posts, and their sixteen silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, Nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, Nor lay any fast foundation.
For health he calleth upon that which is weak: For life prayeth to that which is dead: For aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help: And for a good journey he asketh of that which cannot set a foot forward:
As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver; So are the fair feet with a constant heart.
First 61 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G939.
And thou shalt make to the twenty posts forty silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.
and their forty silver sockets: two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.
And there shall be eight posts, and their sixteen silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post.
And thou shalt set it upon four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their tops shall be gold, and their four sockets shall be of silver.
And thou shalt make for the veil five posts, and thou shalt gild them with gold; and their chapiters shall be gold; and thou shalt cast for them five brazen sockets.
And their pillars twenty, and twenty brazen sockets for them, and their rings and their clasps of silver.
Thus shall there be to the side toward the north curtains of a hundred cubits in length; and their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass, and the rings and the clasps of the pillars, and their sockets overlaid with silver.
And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the west curtains of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten.
And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the south, curtains of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
And the height of the curtains shall be of fifty cubits for the one side of the gate; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
And for the second side the height of the curtains shall be of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
And a veil for the door of the court, the height of it of twenty cubits of blue linen, and of purple, and spun scarlet, and of fine linen spun with the art of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
All the pillars of the court round about overlaid with silver, and their chapiters silver and their brass sockets.
And the length of the court shall be a hundred cubits on each side, and the breadth fifty on each side, and the height five cubits of fine linen spun, and their sockets of brass.
And thou shalt take of the blood of the calf, and put it on the horns of the altar with thy finger, but all the rest of the blood thou shalt pour out at the foot of the altar.
Make a brazen laver, and a brazen base for it, for washing; and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of witness and the altar, and thou shalt pour forth water into it.
and the altar of whole burnt offerings and all its furniture, and the table and all its furniture, and the laver.
and the pure candlestick and all its furniture, and the laver and its base,
And they put it on four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their chapiters were gold, and their four sockets were silver.
and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their chapiters and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.
and their posts twenty, and their sockets twenty;
and on the north side a hundred every way, and on the south side a hundred every way, and their posts twenty and their sockets twenty.
And on the west side curtains of fifty cubits, their posts ten and their sockets ten.
and their pillars three, and their sockets three.
And at the second back on this side and on that by the gate of the court, curtains of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three;
And the sockets of their pillars of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the court overlaid with silver:
and their pillars four, and their sockets four of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver.
He made all the vessels of the altar and its grate, and its base, and its bowls, and the brazen fleshhooks.
He made the brazen laver, and the brazen base of it of the mirrors of the women that fasted, who fasted by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, in the day in which he set it up.
And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and a thousand five hundred shekels;
and they made of it the bases of the door of the tabernacle of witness,
And the blue that was left, and the purple, and the scarlet they made into garments of ministry for Aaron, so that he should minister with them in the sanctuary;
And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and shall wring off its head; and the priest shall put it on the altar, and shall wring out the blood at the bottom of the altar.
And the priest shall put of the blood of the calf on the horns of the altar of the compound incense which is before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of witness; and all the blood of the calf shall he pour out by the foot of the altar of whole burnt offerings, which is by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.
And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of the incense of composition, which is before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of witness; and he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of whole burnt offerings, which is by the door of the tabernacle of witness.
And the priest shall put some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger on the horns of the altar of whole burnt offering; and he shall pour out all its blood by the bottom of the altar of whole burnt offerings.
And the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the altar of whole burnt offerings; and all its blood he shall pour forth by the foot of the altar.
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the altar of whole burnt offerings, and he shall pour out all its blood by the bottom of the altar of whole burnt offering.
And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, but the rest of the blood he shall drop at the foot of the altar, for it is a sin offering.
In the place where they slay the whole burnt offering, they shall slay the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord, and he shall pour out the blood at the bottom of the altar round about.
and sprinkled of it seven times on the altar; and anointed the altar, and hallowed it, and all things on it, and the laver, and its foot, and sanctified them; and anointed the tabernacle and all its furniture, and hallowed it.
And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger; and he purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement upon it.
And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and he poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar.
The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari included the chapiters of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all their furniture, and their works,
and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pins, and their cords.
And they shall put upon it all the vessels with which they minister upon it, and the fire pans, and the fleshhooks, and the cups, and the cover, and all the vessels of the altar; and they shall put on it a blue cover of skins, and shall put in its staffs; and they shall take a purple cloth, and cover the laver and its foot, and they shall put it into a blue cover of skin, and put it on bars.
And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the chapiters of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.
And they shall bear the pillars of the court round about, and there shall be their sockets, and they shall bear the pillars of the veil of the door of the court, and their sockets and their pins, and their cords, and all their furniture, and all their instruments of service: take ye their number by name, and all the articles of the charge of the things borne by them.
And thou shalt sacrifice thy whole burnt offerings, thou shalt offer the flesh upon the altar of the Lord thy God; but the blood of thy sacrifices thou shalt pour out at the foot of the altar of the Lord thy God, but the flesh thou shalt eat.
And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from the brazen oxen that were under it, and set it upon a base of stone.
For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and set it in the midst of the court of the sanctuary; the length of it was five cubits, and the breadth of it five cubits, and the height of it three cubits: and he stood upon it, and fell upon his knees before the whole congregation of Israel, and spread abroad his hands to heaven,
His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: His form is as Lebanon, choice as the cedars.
And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and carried it away to Babylon.
Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thy high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.
And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down thy house of harlotry, and destroy thy high place; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy proud ornaments, and leave thee naked and bare.
a wooden altar, the height of it three cubits, and the length two cubits, and the breadth two cubits; and it had horns, and the base of it and the sides of it were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table, which is before the face of the Lord.
And they shall take of its blood, and shall put it on the four horns of the altar, and upon the four corners of the propitiatory, and upon the base round about, and they shall make atonement for it.
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, Nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, Nor lay any fast foundation.
For health he calleth upon that which is weak: For life prayeth to that which is dead: For aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help: And for a good journey he asketh of that which cannot set a foot forward:
As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver; So are the fair feet with a constant heart.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G939, grouped by book.
Basis (Strong's G939) is a Greek word most simply glossed "foot". basis (bas'-ece) n. 1. a pace ("base") 2. (by implication) the foot
This page currently indexes 61 linked usages for Strong's G939 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G939 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sockets, altar, its, blood, pillars, and put. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 57 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G939, with linked reader references where each row is available.