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Foot

πούςStrong’s G4228

pous

Appears in 86 verses of the New Testament

In short

Pous is the Greek word usually translated “feet” and “foot”. It appears in 86 verses of the New Testament.

“Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.”
1 Timothy 5:10 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “feet” and “foot”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • feet 86
  • foot 6
  • of a foot 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Acts 19
  • Luke 15
  • John 12
  • Revelation 11
  • Matthew 10
  • Mark 5

11 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
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1 Corinthians 4
12:1512:2115:2515:27
Ephesians 2
1:226:15
1 Timothy 1
5:10
Greek dictionary

πούς pous · foot

πούς, ποδός, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for רֶגֶל ;] a foot, both of men and beasts: Mat.4:6 (LXX), Mrk.9:45, Luk.1:79, Jhn.11:44, Act.7:5, al.; ὑπο τοὺς π., Rom.16:20, 1Co.15:25 15:27 Eph.1:22, Heb.2:8; ὑποκάτω τῶν π., Mat.22:44 (LXX); πρὸς (παρὰ) τοὺς π., Mrk.5:22, Luk.8:41, al.; figuratively, Mat.15:30, Luk.10:39, Act.5:2, al.; ἔμπροσθεν τῶν π., Rev.3:9 19:10, al.; ἐπὶ τοὺς π., Act.10:25. By meton., of a person in motion (Psa.119:101): Luk.1:79, Act.5:9, Rom.3:15 10:15, Heb.12:13 (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “foot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FOOT, noun

plural feet. [Latin pes, pedis. Probably this word is allied to the Gr. to walk, to tread. Eng. verb, to tread.]

  1. In animal bodies, the lower extremity of the leg; the part of the leg which treads the earth in standing or walking, and by which the animal is sustained and enabled to step.
  2. That which bears some resemblance to an animal's foot in shape or office; the lower end of any thing that supports a body; as the foot of a table.
  3. The lower part; the base; as the foot of a column or of a mountain.
  4. The lower part; the bottom; as the foot of an account; the foot of a sail.
All definitions and other forms of “foot”
  1. Foundation; condition; state.
  2. Plan of establishment; fundamental principles.
  3. In military language, soldiers who march and fight on foot; infantry, as distinguished from cavalry.
  4. A measure consisting of twelve inches; supposed to be taken from the length of a man's foot Geometricians divide the foot into 10 digits, and the digit into 10 lines.
  5. In poetry, a certain number of syllables, constituting part of a verse; as the iambus, the dactyl, and the spondee.
  6. Step; pace.
  7. Level; par. obsolete
  8. The part of a stocking or boot which receives the foot

FOOT, verb intransitive

  1. To dance; to tread to measure or music; to skip.
  2. To walk; opposed to ride or fly.

FOOT, verb transitive

  1. To kick; to strike with the foot; to spurn.
  2. To settle; to begin to fix. [Little used.]
  3. To tread; as, to foot the green.
  4. To add the numbers in a column, and set the sum at the foot; as, to foot an account.
  5. To seize and hold with the foot [Not used.]
  6. To add or make a foot; as, to foot a stocking or boot.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.