Thing

Stairs, steps

Human-made Things in the Bible

Steps were a series of levels by which a person could ascend or descend by foot. They connected one story of a building to another or one level of ground to another. They could be laid down as blocks of stone or cut into the earth or bedrock.

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

לוּל lul · 1 verse
מַעֲלָה, מַעֲלֶה ma‘alah, ma‘aleh · 36 verses
סֻלָּם sulam · 1 verse
ἀναβαθμός anabathmos · 2 verses
κρηπίς krēpis · 1 verse

Also in House, permanent dwelling

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema