Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
thought
Usage: what comes up, thoughts
Maalah means “step” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4609 — silas in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4609 מַעֲלָה (ma`alah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ma`alah (mah-al-aw') n-f. 1. elevation 2. (literally, the act) a journey to a higher place It has 24 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include steps and place. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ma`alah (mah-al-aw') n-f. 1. elevation 2. (literally, the act) a journey to a higher place 3. (figuratively, the act) a thought arising 4. (literally, the condition) a step or grade-mark 5. (figuratively, the condition) a superiority of station 6. (specifically) a climactic progression (in certain Psalms) [feminine of H4608] KJV: things that come up, (high) degree, deal, go up, stair, step, story. Root(s): H4608
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thought
Usage: what comes up, thoughts
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ma`alah, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old 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.
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24 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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.
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.
First 24 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4609.
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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.
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.
Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
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:
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.
For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
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Maalah (Strong's H4609) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "step". ma`alah (mah-al-aw') n-f. 1. elevation 2. (literally, the act) a journey to a higher place
This page currently indexes 24 linked usages for Strong's H4609 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4609 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as steps and place. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.