Footstool
Human-made Things in the Bible
The footstool was a piece of furniture on which a person could rest his feet. It took the form of a low stool on which the feet were placed to keep them off the ground. Egyptian footstools, such as the one shown below actually depicted enemies the Egyptian king had defeated.
Pictures
In the Bible
The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used
הֲדֹם, רֶגֶל hadom regel · 6 verses
כֶּבֶשׁ kevesh · 1 verse
ὑποπόδιον hupopodion · 7 verses
Also in Household
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
