ΚΛΙΜΑΚΕΣ, κλιμακες
KLIMAKES, klimakes
Sounds Like: KLEE-mah-kes
Translations: ladders, stairs, steps
From the root: ΚΛΙΜΑΞ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a set of steps or a ladder, used for ascending or descending. It can describe a physical structure like a staircase or a portable ladder. It is a compound word, though its components are not typically broken down in common usage.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2824 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 5:15
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΛΙΜΑΞ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΛΙΜΑΚ — ladder, a ladder, staircase, a staircase, flight of stairs, a flight of stairs
- ΚΛΙΜΑΚΑ — ladder, a ladder, stairway, stairs
- ΚΛΙΜΑΚΑΣ — ladders, stairways, stairs
- ΚΛΙΜΑΚΟΣ — of a ladder, of a stairway, of a flight of stairs, of a scaling-ladder
- ΚΛΙΜΑΚΩΝ — of a ladder, of ladders, of a stairway, of stairways, of a flight of stairs, of flights of stairs
- ΚΛΙΜΑΞ — ladder, a ladder, stairway, a stairway
- ΚΛΙΜΑΤΑΙΣ — to ladders, to stairs, to steps, to ascents
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